institution_id,institution,pol_tit,definitions,defdatalen,support,dmp,scope,ownership,external,criteria,retain,ethics,access,open,costs,review,hyperlink
Merger of ISO 3166-1 alpha numeric three-digit country code with the HESA allocated unique identifier INSTID - Institution identifier (INSTID),Name of UK HEI institution,Title of research data policy,"Policy offers definitions of key RDM terms, i.e. ""data"", ""documentation""",Word count of policy�s definition of data,Policy broadly defines the role institution plays in supporting RDM,Policy specifies requirement to complete a DMP (either institutional or funder),Policy specifies who it covers,Policy contains a statement on institutional ownership of research data,Policy contains a statement on the primacy of external funding requirements,Policy specifies criteria on data and documentation required to be retained,Policy contains a statement on minimum length of time data should be kept,Policy contains a statement on the ethical use/reuse of data,Policy contains a statement on how data will be accessed,Policy contains a statement on data availability,Policy contains a statement on the costs of RDM,Policy states it is subject to periodic review,Hyperlink to research data policy as of June 2016
8260167,University of Edinburgh,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"Training, advice, storage, back-up","All research proposals must have a DMP that _explicitly addresses�: data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.",University,None,None,"Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings",None,Legitimate interest of the subjects of research data must be protected,"Offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or a University repository","Data be available for re-use where appropriate (with commitments to protecting research data subjects), although that data availability need not be through the university. Policy prevents data being made available to commercial publishers unless rights are retained for open re-use. An exception is reserved where original funding conditions prevent this.
data be available for re-use where appropriate (with commitments to protecting research data subjects), although that data availability need not be through the university.
Finally, the policy prevents data being made available to commercial publishers unless rights are retained for open re-use. An exception is reserved where original funding conditions prevent this.
data be available for re-use where appropriate (with commitments to protecting research data subjects), although that data availability need not be through the university.
Finally, the policy prevents data being made available to commercial publishers unless rights are retained for open re-use. An exception is reserved where original funding conditions prevent this.
data be available for re-use where appropriate (with commitments to protecting research data subjects), although that data availability need not be through the university.
Finally, the policy prevents data being made available to commercial publishers unless rights are retained for open re-use. An exception is reserved where original funding conditions prevent this.
data be available for re-use where appropriate (with commitments to protecting research data subjects), although that data availability need not be through the university.
Finally, the policy prevents data being made available to commercial publishers unless rights are retained for open re-use. An exception is reserved where original funding conditions prevent this.
",None,None,http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/policies-and-regulations/research-data-policy
8260027,University of Northampton,Research Data Policy,Uses definiton from University of Melbourne,"""Data are facts, observations or experiences on which an argument, theory or test is based.  Data may be numerical, descriptive or visual.  Data may be raw or analysed, experimental or observational.  Data includes:  laboratory notebooks; field notebooks; primary research data (including research data in hardcopy or in computer readable form); questionnaires; audiotapes; videotapes; models; photographs; films; test responses.  Research collections may include slides; artefacts; specimens; samples.""",RDM training,"the Principal Investigator is, at an early stage of their research project, encouraged to produce and then follow a data management plan (DMP).  An example of a tool which may be used for this purpose is shown in Appendix 1. ",Staff and students,None,6.1.3 The policy does not cover data created as a result of third party sponsored research where the third party holds the intellectual property rights or has imposed other contractual constraints. ,None,"Data in the university�s central storage facility is reviewed by the researcher (or appropriate college if the researcher is unavailable) and university records manager, five years for possible disposal.",None,"6.2.4 At the end of a project data will be deposited in either a national collection or in the university�s secure central storage facility.  If the latter then the data must incorporate adequate descriptive metadata and, if necessary, accompanying explanatory documentation.",Commercial use must not restrict availability unless it's a funding requirement,None,None,http://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/research_data_policy.docx.
8260060,University of Hertfordshire,Data Management Policy,Yes,"""distinct units of information such as facts, numbers, letters, symbols, usually formatted in a specific way, stored in a database and suitable for processing by a computer""","Legislative complience, finding archives, _ensuring effective data management to meet internal and external requirements�; retaining data for a _defined� period and that it is accurate, authentic, and compliant; and supporting investigations into misconduct or breaches.","data description, roles and responsibilities, standards and quality assurance, access, use and credit, costs, research process, and preservation and sustainability.",University,All data created or owned by the University and its wholly-owned subsidiary companies are the property of the University of Hertfordshire Higher Education Corporation and are regarded as corporate assets.,None,implementation of agreed data retention criteria and archiving policies;,None,"observe any ethical, commercial, security or other restrictions determined by the University that apply to the data to which they have access;","There are three levels of access defined in this policy, and all determined by discression of the university on recommendation","Data must be available and stored in an official University repository, with no unnecessary duplication",None,This Data Management Policy (UPR IM12) and the arrangements for its implementation will be reviewed annually by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor Advisory Group - Information Management Policy and Strategy in conjunction with the Data Stewards.,http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/secreg/upr/pdf/IM12-Data%20Management%20Policy-v03%201.pdf
8260163,University of Warwick,Research Data Management Policy,The policy offers a definition of research data citing HEFCE and ANDS definitions.,"""A 2008 HEFCE-funded report defines research data as ""the evidence base on which academic researchers build their analytic or other work ""The Australian National Data Service describes research data as ""the data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that comprise a research project�s observations, findings or outcomes, including primary materials and analysed data"" These indicate that 'research data' encompasses a wide range of types of content and format and is generated in all disciplines. In addition, the 2011 RCUK statement _Common Principles on Data Policy� was supported by all Research Councils.""","The University provides _means and services� for registering, depositing, storing, retaining, and accessing data. The University is also committed to providing advice, training, and support for RDM.",Researchers must create a DMP whether they create or reuse data.,This Policy therefore applies across all areas of Warwick research.,None,Funder regulations prevail,"Data deemed to be of interest to future research, including data that substantiate research findings, will normally be offered for deposit in an appropriate external data service or repository and/or a Warwick repository",It�s required to be _intact for an appropriate format and storage facility� for _at least� ten years from the date of any publication based upon it,"There are a number of obligations on both individual researchers and the University regarding research data, for example legal requirements such as the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts, the need for confidentiality for ethical or commercial reasons",Data can be hosted elsewhere but must be registered with the University. ,It contains a statement prohibiting surrendering rights unless the data is openly available (exemption for funding conditions).,None,"In adopting this Policy the University intends that an evolutionary approach will be taken to implementing it over a number of years.


",http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/rss/researchgovernance_ethics/research_code_of_practice/datacollection_retention/reseatch_data_mgt_policy
8260087,Glyndwr University,Policy on the Management of and Access to Research Data,None,None,None,Require researchers to ensure that provision for the archiving of data generated by their research is included in their project planning and implementation,Researchers,None,None,None,None,"Ensure that measures are in place to safeguard data for which legal, ethical and/or commercial factors reasonably prevent its release",Establish procedures to ensure that requests for the release of data are responded to promptly,"university ensures that the catalogue is not constrained by staff departures, by assigning future IPR to the University",None,3 years,http://glynfo.glyndwr.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/3076/mod_resource/content/0/Policies/Policy_on_the_Management_of_and_Access_to_Research_Data_GRAPO1112003.doc
8260160,University of Southampton,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""""Research Data"" means information in digital, computer-readable format or paper-based that:
1.3.1 is contained or presented in various ways including notes, facts, figures, tables, images (still and moving), audio or visual recordings; and
1.3.2 which is collected, generated or obtained during the course of or as a result of undertaking research (which includes but is not limited to conducting field or laboratory experiments, conducting trials, surveys, interviews, focus groups or analysis of data); and
1.3.3 which is subsequently used by the Researcher as a basis for making calculations or drawing conclusions to develop, support or revise theories, practices and findings.""
",None,None,"shall include but not be limited to employees, workers, visiting researchers, postgraduate research students and the PI","Section three concerns data ownership and IPR, with the university claiming rights except where funder and commercial agreements prohibit holding them",university claiming rights except where funder and commercial agreements prohibit holding them,"Data should be held for 10 years, unless funders require longer, patents emerge, when data is challenged in that ten year period, and where _research has public interest or heritage value�. ",10 years,"Before sharing Research Data during or after a project it is essential to consider whether this is permissible in light of IPR ownership, ethical, privacy, confidentiality requirements or any legal, regulatory or funding restrictions.","requires storage in _computer-readable form�, specifying _durable�, _appropriate� format with metadata and documentation, backed up. Data not stored in the repository must have an entry indicating where the data is. Non-digital data must be securely stored, documented, and also have a repository entry.",University recognises the benefits of making Research Data accessible to the public or wider academic community.,None,None,http://www.calendar.soton.ac.uk/sectionIV/research-data-management.html
8260058,University of East London,Research Data Management Policy for UEL,None,None,"The university will offer information, guidance and contacts on RDM through its website in consultation with researchers. ","(DMP) are mandated at UEL for all externally-funded datasets created after 1 May 2012, and recommended for other datasets.",Staff,None,There is a presumption of releasing data created at UEL in order to meet regulatory and contractual requirements,"Appraisal (review) of datasets by relevant parties will occur at project end, and every 5 years thereafter (or in accordance with funder requirements) until a dataset is transferred or destroyed.","Appraisal (review) of datasets by relevant parties will occur at project end, and every 5 years thereafter (or in accordance with funder requirements) until a dataset is transferred or destroyed.","Appropriate safeguards. In particular, the legitimate interests of participants will be protected in line with research ethics approval, and personal data will typically be anonymised if appropriate for release",LLS will develop by 1 May 2015 an infrastructure and support service for research data created in consultation with Schools and Services. This will include a portal for datasets which are suitable for sharing.,"Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers without retaining the rights to make the data openly available, unless this is a condition of funding.",none,Annual progress on the policy is to be reported by the library.,http://www.uel.ac.uk/wwwmedia/services/library/lls/resources/rspresearchtools/Research-Data-Management-policy-for-UEL-FINAL.pdf
8260113,Brunel University,Research Data Management Vision,None,None,"university provides _training, support, advice and information� to support RDM, recognises it is a _shared responsibility� with researchers working with academic units and central departments to develop and implement RDM plans.",RDM plans are integral to research proposals.,Researchers,None,None,None,None,"Research data management policies safeguard the interests of participants in the research, the researchers and the University by facilitating compliance with relevant legislation. 
","All research data is stored securely and is registered with the University. Data is stored in the data centres of higher educational institutions or in subject-specific data services. 
",It assumes that all data produced by university researchers will be made available to the wider academic community,None,None,http://www.brunel.ac.uk/services/library/research/rdm/rdm-vision
8260118,University of Essex,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"The University commits to storage, backup, registration (to DOI), deposit, and retention _during and after completion of research projects�","All proposals must have a DMP that addresses specified areas (_data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication�).",Staff and students (not UG),None,None,None,None,The interests of human participants of research must be protected during all stages of the data lifecycle.,"The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration1, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.","Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.",None,2 years,http://www.essex.ac.uk/reo/documents/rdm-policy.pdf
8260172,University of Dundee,Policy to Govern the Management of Research Data,None,None,"�The Library & Learning Centre (LLC) will provide support, guidance and information on appropriate research data management activities, including availability of internal and external research data repositories, licensing of datasets and allocation of persistent identifiers for datasets.�","�New research projects must include research data management plans that cover items such as: data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication. �","�This policy applies to all staff that are authorized to use the University�s name and services in the course of their research, including post graduate students and visiting, honorary and emeritus staff. �","�The University of Dundee retains the intellectual property rights of the Research Data, and original copies of data must be retained.�",�The University of Dundee will respect the requirements and policies of existing and future partnerships with third parties involved in the storage and safeguarding of Research Data.�,"�All Research Data of potential current or future interest, or that which substantiates published research findings, should be assessed by the Principal Investigator�","�The length of time data is stored for should be determined as part of the Research Data management planning for the project, and should adhere to any particular funding body�s requirements and any additional conditions or practices within the field.�","�The privacy, confidentiality and other legitimate interests of any participants involved in the gathering of Research Data must remain protected at all times.�","�Any Research Data to be deposited with external services, such as Research Council or international repositories, should therefore be made known to the LLC�
�deposition in an appropriate external or University led research data repository.�
",�Research Data should be made openly accessible for access and re-use by others.�,"�The associated costs of data management, archiving and sharing should be recovered from funders in the grant application, where funder�s policies permit.�",None,http://www.dundee.ac.uk/media/dundeewebsite/library/documents/pdf/2015_Data_Management_Policy.pdf
8260139,Queen Mary University of London,Research Data Management Policy,This policy starts with HEFCE�s (2008) definition of data,"""the evidence base on which academic researchers build their analytic or other work""","will _provide advice, training and support� also _means and services enabling registration, deposit, storage, retention of and access to research data�.",researchers _must� _prepare and maintain� DMPs and specifies contents,Staff and students,None,"Data must be retained intact in an appropriate format and storage facility
according to funder requirements and relevant data legislation","Data deemed to be of interest to future research, particularly data that
substantiate research findings,",States data can be accessed for _at least ten years after publication�,"RCUK recognises that there are legal, ethical and commercial constraints on
release of research data.","Data deemed to be of interest to future research, particularly data that
substantiate research findings, will be offered for deposit either in a Queen
Mary or an appropriate external repository.","Where possible publicly funded research data should be made available for
access and re-use.",None,None,http://www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/policy_zone/research/QMUL_research_data_management_policy_2012.pdf
8260159,University of Sheffield,Research Data Management Policy,"The term _data� is intended to be interpreted widely in this context, and includes observational data, experimental data and data derived from analysis, independent of format. ","""The term ""data"" is intended to be interpreted widely in this context, and includes observational data, experimental data and data derived from analysis, independent of format.""","support through training _for research students and early career researchers, and other researchers who request it�, guiding on aspects of RDM (costing, DMPs, metadata, IPR, and FoI), and _additional infrastructure and services�developed in consultation with researchers�. ","DMPs are required. They should address _data capture, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication�","While effective research data management is important for funded research projects, this policy applies to all research undertaken by staff and students of the University",Policy states that research is property of University (unless contractually otherwise),"Unless the terms of research grants or contracts provide otherwise, data generated by research projects are the property of the University of Sheffield. Researchers should exercise care in assigning rights in data to publishers or other external agencies.",none,none,"Personal data should be protected in line with the University�s Ethics Policy Governing Research Involving Human Participants, Personal Data and Human Tissue.",None,Researchers should exercise care in assigning rights in data to publishers or other external agencies.,"Where possible, researchers should seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data generated by projects from the research funder.",policy will be regularly reviewed by committee.,http://www.shef.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.553350!/file/GRIPPolicyextractRDM.pdf
8260124,University of Leeds,Research Data Management Policy,backed up with good online FAQs that elaborate on questions arising from the (short) policy.,"""There is no single, accepted definition of 'research data'; what constitutes 'data' varies by discipline and the characteristics of a given research project. However, several helpful definitions have been suggested; two are included below.
The Engineering and Physical Research Council offers a useful definition:
""Research data is defined as recorded factual material commonly retained by and accepted in the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings; although the majority of such data is created in digital format, all research data is included irrespective of the format in which it is created.""
Researchers may wish to define their research data in broader terms; projects may well generate data beyond that used to underpin published findings but which may be valuable for re-use in future research.
Monash University suggests a broad definition:
""The data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that comprise research observations, findings or outcomes, including primary materials and analysed data.""
",responsible for _training and advice�,"A DMP is required addressing _capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, preservation, sharing and publication�",None,none,Research data will be managed to agreed standards throughout the research data lifecycle and according to funder requirements.,none,none,"Data management plans should take account of and ensure compliance with relevant legislative frameworks which may limit public access to the data (for example, in the areas of data protection, intellectual property and human rights). ","At the completion of each research project, the PI should ensure that all relevant research data are made available, subject to meeting appropriate requirements, in the location specified in the data management plan. ","Data should not be deposited with any organisation that does not commit to its access and availability for re-use, unless this is a condition of the project funding or arising from other requirements. ",None,Policy to be reviewed by committee.,http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/422/policies/189/university_of_leeds_research_data_management_policy/1
8260156,University of Oxford,Policy on the Management of Research Data and Records,Yes,"""Research data and records are defined as the recorded information (regardless of the form or the media in which they may exist) necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs.""","storage, backup, deposit and retention, as well as training and support, and resources to operate these.","Developing and documenting clear procedures for the collection, storage, use, re-use, access and retention or destruction of the research data and records associated with their research. This shall include, where appropriate, defining protocols and responsibilities in a joint or multi-institution collaborative research project. This information should be incorporated, where appropriate, in a research data management plan","Researchers are defined as members of the University including staff and doctoral students, and those who are not members of the University but who are conducting research on University premises or using University facilities.",policy establishes primacy of external requirements when it comes to ownership and retaining data.,"Where research is supported by a contract with or a grant to the University that includes specific provisions regarding ownership, retention of and access to data, the provisions of that agreement will take precedence.",Research data and records should be retained for as long as they are of continuing value to the researcher and the wider research community,"As long as specified by research funder, patent law, legislative and other regulatory requirements. The minimum retention period for research data and records is three (3) years after publication or public release of the work of the research. In many instances, researchers will resolve to retain research data and records for a longer period than the minimum requirement.","Kept in a manner that is compliant with legal obligations and, where applicable, the requirements of funding bodies and project-specific protocols approved under the University Policy on the Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Human Participants and Personal Data.","Planning for the ongoing custodianship (at the University or using third-party services) of their data after the completion of the research or, in the event of their departure or retirement from the University, reaching agreement with the head of department/faculty (or his/her nominee) as to where such data will be located and how this will be stored;",none,none,The policy is to be further developed and guided by committee and relates to a set of existing policies.,http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwadminoxacuk/localsites/researchdatamanagement/documents/Policy_on_the_Management_of_Research_Data_and_Records.pdf
8260024,University of the Arts London,Research Data Management Policy,"Generally, research data can be considered anything created,
captured or collected as an output of funded research work in its original state.","""The outputs of the research may include, for example, [�] electronic data, including sound or images; performances, films or broadcasts.""",_acknowledges� it�s responsibilities to funders and researcher needs,"DMPs are developed with the funding office, if a DMP is required by external funders.","applies to all staff involved in externally funded research at the University of the Arts
London, especially where the funding body requires a data management plan",None,"To ensure that the University meets its obligations with regard to research data management, as defined by research funders","In essence, this policy covers raw materials and finished outputs, but not necessarily the stages in between.","On completion of the project, the Principal Investigator will review the research data management plan in a meeting with the RMA funding team and IT services. This meeting will identify any research data in a non-digital form that should be digitised, agree on the longerterm storage of the data (including an appropriate depository for the storage of the data)",None,agree on the longerterm storage of the data (including an appropriate depository for the storage of the data),"Where data exists in a non-digital form, appropriate effort to manage this to meet the expectations is also likely to be required. No reasonable external request to access analogue research data resulting from externally funded research will be refused",It is appropriate to use public funds to support the management and sharing of publicly funded research data;,None,http://www.arts.ac.uk/media/arts/research/documents/UAL-Research-Data-Management-Policy-2014.pdf
8260131,Goldsmiths University,Goldsmiths Statement on Open Access,None,None,"�To provide face-to-face and online training and support for all researchers, including early career researchers and postgraduate research students�",None,"�all researchers, including early career researchers and postgraduate research students",None,�We will ensure that Goldsmiths and its researchers are compliant with the requirements of funding bodies and research assessments�,None,None,None,To make other research outputs and data available in GRO/GDO ,To make other research outputs and data available in GRO/GDO in an open access form,None,None,http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/documents-by-section/research-and-enterprise/Goldsmiths-Statement-on-Open-Access-3-March-2016.pdf
8260206,University for the Creative Arts,UCA Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide training, support, advice and where appropriate guidelines and templates for the research data management process and research data management plans.""","""All new research proposals must include research data management plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, information security (specifically integrity and confidentiality), retention, preservation, sharing and publication.""",None,None,"""where required by their funding body�s terms and conditions""","""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings""",None,The privacy and other legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.,"""The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit, retention and preservation of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.""","Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.",None,None,http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/media/pdf/k/s/UCA_Research_Data_Management_Policy_1_.pdf
8260072,Oxford Brooks University,Research Data Management Policy,"""By data, the University means not just datasets but art work, recordings, videos or any other form of data that researchers collect on the course of undertaking their research.""","""By data, the University means not just datasets but art work, recordings, videos or any other form of data that researchers collect on the course of undertaking their research.""","""UCA will provide training, support, and advice. This will include, where appropriate, templates for DMPs and guidelines on effectively managing research data.""","Specifies DMP requirements for _data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication�",None,None,"""In the event that research data created at UCA is required to be released for regulatory and/or contractual requirements this will be in accordance with appropriate safeguards.""","Data of _historical interest�represent records of UCA, including data that substantiate research findings� to be offered at _appropriate national or international data service or domain repository�",None,Requires data that is shared to be shared in accordance with their code of practice on research ethics.,"""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of UCA, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository."" ""Research data needs to be associated with access information on both physical and digital items, and the potential for re-use where appropriate and with the relevant safeguards. """,Rights shouldn�t be restricted by handing them to commercial publishers (unless funding conditions apply). ,None,"""Progress regarding the implementation of this policy is to be presented each year to the Research and Enterprise Committee and the Ethics Committee.""",http://www.brookes.ac.uk/Documents/Research/Policies-and-codes-of-practice/Research-data-management-policy/
8260123,The University of Lancaster,Research Data Policy,"""By data, the University means not just datasets but art work, recordings, videos or any other form of data that researchers collect on the course of undertaking their research.""","""Research Data are facts, observations or experiences on which an argument, theory or test is based.  Data may be numerical, descriptive or visual.  Data may be raw or analysed, experimental or observational.  Data includes:  laboratory notebooks; field notebooks; primary research data (including research data in hardcopy or in computer readable form); questionnaires; audiotapes; videotapes; models; photographs; films; test responses.  Research collections may include slides; artefacts; specimens; samples.  Provenance information about the data might also be included: the how, when, where it was collected and with what (for example, instrument).  The software code used to generate, annotate or analyse the data may also be included""","""The University will work to provide training, support, advice and, where appropriate, guidelines and templates for research data management and research data management plans."" ""The University will run training sessions for each of the four Faculties on data management and review its central induction programme. PhD provision will also be reviewed""","""All newly awarded research proposals [from date of adoption] should include research data management plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication""","""The following applies to staff AND research students""","""When staff leave it will be expected that they will leave their data behind them, and it will normally be the case that the University will be happy for them to have access to that data""",None,"""Final research data is assumed to mean data prepared to enable a third party to use that data and where data has been anonymised, or otherwise treated, if necessary""","""We already state�will... store data securely for 10 years after completion or longer if required""","""There will be opportunities for data to be kept confidential but it is expected that this will be the exception not the rule.""","""Final research data will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate, subject specific national or international data service or domain repository or a University repository""","""It is expected that final research data are available for open access and re-use where appropriate and under appropriate safeguards.""",None,"""There will be a standing item, once a year, at the University�s RKEC to consider progress.""",https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gap.lancs.ac.uk/policy-info-guide/5-policies-procedures/Documents/SEC-2013-2-0776-Research-Data-Policy.doc&sa=U&ei=ldi7U__VDqHpywOn9YHgCA&ved=0CAUQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFdndQzvOHMjdfOXdJpQNlfYv8jhA
8260116,University of Durham,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""What will the University do?
In order to support researchers and satisfy the requirements of the funders the University will�""","""each project will have a data management plan that is produced at funding application stage or at the beginning of the project.""","""Researcher:  In this context a researcher is a member of staff or student of Lancaster University who is performing research in the name of the University.""",None,"""unless ethical considerations, participant confidentiality, FOI requirements or external agencies e.g. NHS, specifically require otherwise""","""as a minimum, research data directly associated with publications should be archived"" ""all research data to be archived must be associated with metadata which meets minimum standards set out in guidelines given on RSO website.  The metadata should be sufficient to enable other researchers to understand how it was created or acquired, and, if it is to be made openly available, to discover it and assess its reuse potential;""","""all research data will be stored in either electronic or paper form for a minimum of 10 years after the end of a project""","""� ensure that confidentiality and anonymisation requirements are achieved;
� comply with the Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information legislation;""","""research data will be submitted to national or international data services and repositories where available or required by either funders or publishers and this will replace the need for local archiving"" ""aim to provide mechanisms whereby research data that may be useful for other researchers but is not suitable for national repositories, can be archived appropriately.  The University will not provide central storage for physical items such as notebooks, artefacts etc.  Individual researchers will be responsible for this;""","""exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use""",None,"""review annually, through the University Research Committee, this policy and the progress of the implementation plan""",https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/research.office/RDMPolicy.pdf
8260016,Edge Hill University,Code of Practice for Research pp.14-18,"""Research data can take many forms e.g. documents, field notebooks, questionnaires, transcripts, photographs, films, artefacts, data files, etc. and be in many formats e.g. jpeg, statistical files, text, etc.""","""Research data can take many forms e.g. documents, field notebooks, questionnaires, transcripts, photographs, films, artefacts, data files, etc. and be in many formats e.g. jpeg, statistical files, text, etc.""","""The Research Data Management Steering Committee on behalf of UEC is 
responsible for ensuring the provision of:
� training, support and advice for the management of research data
� services and procedures enabling the registration, deposit, storage, and 
curation of research data""","""Researchers are responsible for
� planning and documenting a clear research data management plan as part of their application which should include procedures for collection, storage, use, reuse, access, retention and eventual destruction of data
� planning for the curation and management of their data after the completion of their project
� ensuring that any requirements relating to research data management specified in a research funding contract are met by the research data management plan
� ensuring that a copy of the data management plan is registered with the University�s Research Administration System (RAS)""",None,None,"""...an increased period is required to meet the guidelines or contractual obligations of the funding body""","_All research data stored in accordance with this policy will be held�"" ""Researchers must ensure that digital research data is:
� stored with adequate metadata to enable discovery and effective reuse of the data�
","_All research data stored in accordance with this policy will be held for a minimum period of 3 years from the publication of the research results or the creation of the data whichever is the later.
Research data will be held for up to 10 years where:
� an increased period is required to meet the guidelines or contractual obligations of the funding body
� the research has been subject to challenge at any time during the initial 3 year retention period
Research data will be held for more than 10 years where:
� an increased period is required to meet the guidelines or contractual obligations of the funding body
� the research has resulted in a patent application
� the research has been subject to challenge at any time during the initial 10 year retention period�","_However, before sharing data researchers must consider whether this is permissible in the light of background IPR ownership, ethical considerations, privacy, confidentiality requirements or any legal, regulatory or funding restrictions�",_Researchers must ensure that digital research data is: registered with the University�s RAS irrespective of where it is stored�,"""Durham University recognises the benefits of making research data accessible to the wider academic community and the public.""",None,_The policy will be reviewed by the Research Data Management Steering Committee on an annual basis and amended or updated in line with best practice�,https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/files/2012/05/Strategy-Output-Research-Data-Management-Guidelines-RO-GOV-04.pdf
8260119,University of Exeter*,Open Access Research and Research Data Management Policy/Policy for PGR Students,None,None,"""The University will provide means and services enabling registration, deposit, storage, retention of and access to research data. The University will provide advice, training and support regarding research data management.""","""When planning research activity where research data may be created or reused, researchers 
must prepare, maintain and adhere to data management plans that as a minimum meet Edge Hill University standards, or more rigorous standards as appropriate where required by external bodies.""","""This Policy therefore applies across all areas of Edge Hill University research""",None,"""Where specific regulations with regard to data retention apply (e.g. from funders), these regulations should prevail, particularly where the required retention period is longer than the University requires.""","""Primary research data (and where possible/relevant specimens, samples, questionnaires, audiotapes, etc.) must be retained in their original form""","""Data must be retained intact in an appropriate format and storage facility, normally for a period of at least 10 years from the date of any publication which is based upon it"" ""Researchers should keep clear and accurate records of the procedures followed and the approvals granted during the research process, including records of the interim results obtained as well as of the final research outcomes.""","""Data should be made available for access and re-use under the appropriate conditions""","""All Edge Hill University research data must be registered with the University whether it is hosted by the University or elsewhere.""","""Exclusive rights to host, reuse or publish research data should not be given to other bodies without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.""",None,"""In adopting this Policy, the University intends that an evolutionary approach will be taken to implementing it over a number of years. A Data Management Working Group, chaired by the Director of the Research and Enterprise Support Office, is responsible for planning and implementing this.""",https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/4280/OA_RDM_Policy_Final.pdf?sequence=4
8260134,King's College London,Policy on Research Data Management,None,None,"The University claims responsibility for providing _training, support and advice� as well as _backed-up storage�","Requires RDMs addressing _capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, security, selection, preservation and disposal, commercialisation, costs, sharing, and publication of research data� ",Staff* Students*,None,Researchers should always comply with funder policy on Open Access publishing and research data management.,None,None,Valid reasons for non-deposit include commercial and confidentiality issues.,"an appropriate University, national or international data service or domain repository",data should not be deposited anywhere that _does not commit to its access and availability for re-use� unless funder restrictions apply.,Mentioned in DMP,The policy will be updated regularly.,http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/research/Research_Data_Management_Policy_v12_June_2013.pdf
8260062,University of Lincoln,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"The College provides _training, support and guidelines� for _all staff and students�. ",All research proposals for external funding after 1 September 2014 will require a College research data management plan. Before this date we will aim to comply with specific funder requirements where required.,This policy applies to all employees and students of the College engaged in research activity and support;,None,"Exclusive rights to re-use or publish research data may not and will not be handed over to any commercial organisation without retaining the right to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this was an original condition of the research project funding award.",None,None,"The College aims to make its research data available for sharing within appropriate timescales and in accordance with legitimate requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and commercial/funder contracts.","Upon completion of a project (normally marked by the publication of a final report and/or the cessation of funding), accountability for research data curation will transfer to King�s College London, which will provide appropriate mechanisms and support services for long term preservation and storage of the data.","Exclusive rights to re-use or publish research data may not and will not be handed over to any commercial organisation without retaining the right to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this was an original condition of the research project funding award.",None,Policy subject to review every 3 years.,https://orbital.lincoln.ac.uk/rdm-policy
8260169,The University of Strathclyde,Research Data Policy,"Research Data: the recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific/research community as necessary to validate research findings:
� may take the form of numbers, symbols, text, sound, images (still and moving).
� primary or secondary sources for research that are collected, observed, or created in digital form, for purposes of analysing to produce original research results.
� the University makes no distinction between data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that constitute research observations.
Research Data: the recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific/research community as necessary to validate research findings:
� may take the form of numbers, symbols, text, sound, images (still and moving).
� primary or secondary sources for research that are collected, observed, or created in digital form, for purposes of analysing to produce original research results.
� the University makes no distinction between data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that constitute research observations.
","""the recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific/research community as necessary to validate research findings: may take the form of numbers, symbols, text, sound, images (still and moving). primary or secondary sources for research that are collected, observed, or created in digital form, for purposes of analysing to produce original research results. the University makes no distinction between data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that constitute research observations.""","2.1 The University will support its researchers to achieve best practice in research data management by providing to its researchers: - guidance and training on the practices and processes researchers can apply to plan and organise research data throughout the research lifecycle and augment the grant application process.- the necessary storage capacity required during and after research to enable the safe storage and, if appropriate, sharing of research data such that no researcher is hampered in their research by lack of appropriate storage. The University will support researchers to identify research with extraordinary storage requirements that may require cost consideration when seeking funding.- advice on, and application of, rigorous checks and controls in relation to data security, access and embargos, to protect the rights of researchers, the University and any others with rights related to research data created and stored at the University. - advice on the most appropriate place for long term storage of completed and/or published datasets. The University supports the use of appropriate external data storage and curation facilities where specified by a funder or where this is the disciplinary norm. Where no suitable external repository exists the Institution will make provision for long term data storage. - clear guidelines on the retention and, where appropriate, the disposal of research data. Researchers will be supported to ensure that disposal of any research data is carried out in accordance with all legal and ethical requirements and conforms to guidelines on confidentiality and security.- the employment of documented curation practices on stored research data that enable data recoverability, preservation and, if appropriate, sharing of data into the future.
2.2 The University expects its researchers will engage with the available guidance and advice and employ the appropriate practices, processes and systems to protect themselves and their data as part of their commitment to excellence in research.  A researcher must be assigned the role of responsible party in relation to research data and the processes and practices employed by the research team. Where no assignment of responsibility is made in externally funded research the Principal Investigator will be considered the responsible party and in the case of PhD projects the lead supervisor will be considered the responsible party. Assignment of responsibility must be formally recorded as part of a Data Management Plan. 
",Specific expectations on researchers include but are not limited to: - the creation of an implementable Data Management Plan early in the research lifecycle that will assist the research team in addressing issues relevant to data management and any related contractual obligations.,"This policy applies to and should be observed by all researchers at the University and applies to all research data created, received, used, maintained, accessed and disposed of by researchers of the University in the course of their research.",None,"_the application of guidelines that enable informed decision making on identifying and preparing data which is appropriate for retention, sharing and publication, including non-digital materials, in line with funding mandates and contractual obligations to external partners�",None,None,None,_the University supports the use of appropriate external data storage and curation facilities where specified by a funder or where this is the disciplinary norm. In this case it is the responsibility of the researcher to ensure this data is catalogued via Pure in relation to its publications and project to enable the University to meet its requirement to monitor activity in relation to research data storage and preservation.�,"""researchers will make research data publicly available where appropriate.""",None,Review Date: August annually.,http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/ps/cs/gmap/academicaffairs/policies/Research_Data_Policy_v1.pdf
8260204,University of Manchester,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""Staff can expect to receive training, guidance and support from Research & Enterprise Development and the Library for the development of research data management plans and their implementation."" ""The Library and ICT Services will provide the infrastructure and expertise for long-term curation, preservation and access to research data. This will include mechanisms and secure services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.""","""Principal Investigators (PI) are asked to consider data creation, management or sharing in the development of their research proposals and grant applications. Increasingly, a research 'Data Management Plan' or its equivalent is a requirement of funding and should explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, evaluation, retention, sharing and publication. In the case of research which is not funded by an external public or commercial agency, researchers are encouraged to create a Data Management Plan as an element of best practice.""","""This policy sets out the university's expectations for the management of research data across all academic disciplines and in all forms""",None,""" Open access to research data will be granted under appropriate safeguards according to conditions and timeframes specified by researchers, commercial partners and funding bodies.""","""Principal Investigators should record the existence of research data upon creation and deposit it according to their plan (often within six months of publication of research findings).""","""The University will preserve access for as long as specified by the data management plan (which can be up to ten years after it was last accessed).""",None,"""In accordance with the Research Council�s timeframes for preserving access to research outputs, Principal Investigators should record the existence of research data upon creation and deposit it according to their plan (often within six months of publication of research findings). The University will preserve access for as long as specified by the data management plan (which can be up to ten years after it was last accessed). Any data which is retained elsewhere, for example in an international data service or domain repository, should be registered with the University.""","""Open access to research data will be granted under appropriate safeguards according to conditions and timeframes specified by researchers, commercial partners and funding bodies.""","""Costs to meet the specific requirements of data management plans should be included in grant applications, where permitted. The University will develop appropriate plans and budgets for meeting the costs of long-term storage, preservation and curation of research data.""","""This policy will be reviewed jointly by Research & Enterprise Development, ICT and the Library every two years.""",http://www.miss.manchester.ac.uk/?page_id=425
8260155,University of Nottingham,Research Data Management Policy,"""Research data is defined as that which is collected, observed, or created for purposes of analysing to produce original research results.""","""Research data is defined as that which is collected, observed, or created for purposes of analysing to produce original research results.""","""The University recognises its responsibility to support good research data management practice, and will provide appropriate support services and guidelines (Guidelines) for researchers""","""Every Relevant Project initiated following the adoption of this Policy must have a research data management plan (Research Data Management Plan), which follows Guidelines, and addresses the arrangements for research data management throughout the project life-cycle.  Unless agreed otherwise, the plan must respect the research data management policies of the funder(s) and of any other interested parties.  It is the responsibility of the Principal Investigator to ensure that the Research Data Management Plan is created, recorded by the University, adhered to and updated as necessary throughout the project lifecycle.""","""This policy (Policy) applies to any data (Relevant Data) that is created or acquired in research projects (funded or unfunded) involving staff and/or students of the University (Relevant Projects).""","""All Relevant Data, and the intellectual property rights therein, are subject to the University�s intellectual property policy (Intellectual Property Policy).  They are generally the property of the University (and/or, where relevant, a subsidiary company), unless agreed otherwise e.g. in relation to commercially sensitive data that are subject to a third-party agreement.""","""Unless agreed otherwise, the plan must respect the research data management policies of the funder(s) and of any other interested parties.""","""Relevant Data that are likely to have long-term value, including data that substantiate research findings or represent records of the University, must be preserved and curated, following Guidelines""","""For as long they remain of value, and for at least any period stipulated by the funder or other relevant authority""","""Where Relevant Data are made openly available, it is the responsibility of the Principal Investigator to ensure compliance with all relevant legal and other requirements including: ethical approvals and consents, the rights of data subjects, the 1998 Data Protection Act, intellectual property rights and agreements and any other confidentiality agreements""","""Where Relevant Data is stored outside the direct control of the University, details must be recorded in the Research Data Management Plan, and it is the responsibility of the Principal Investigator to use their best endeavours to ensure that equivalent standards apply""","""The University expects its researchers to make Relevant Data openly available to other researchers in a timely way, with as few restrictions as possible.  It is recognised that some restrictions may be necessary, e.g. to protect intellectual property, respect confidentiality, or honour third party agreements, but these should be minimised as far as is practicable.  It is also recognised that it may be appropriate to allow a limited period of privileged access to the data for the research team that acquired or created it.""",None,None,http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/fabs/rgs/research-data-management/creating-data/policies.aspx
8260126,University of Liverpool,Research Data Management Policy,"""Research data are defined as any recorded information necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs, regardless of format. It includes research in all disciplines but it is recognised that current practices, knowledge and experience varies across and within Faculties, in line with discipline norms.""","""Research data are defined as any recorded information necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs, regardless of format.""","""Guidance and training will be provided by the University.""","""Funders increasingly require grant holders to produce Data Management Plans (DMPs) at the bid preparation stage. These plans should be kept up to date after funding is granted and as the project 
progresses. This is good practice that should be followed for all new research projects. DMPs typically include information describing what kind of data will be created, how it will be stored, organised, shared and archived, keeping in mind any ethical issues that may apply to the information. Guidance and training will be provided by the University. ""","""This policy applies to all members of the University conducting research or involved in the creation, collection, or generation of research data.""","""All research data generated by UoL academics are wholly owned by the University (or funder) and remains with the University if the academic leaves the institution""",""" specified by the funder""","""Data must be retained in an appropriate format and storage facility ""","""Data must be retained in an appropriate format and storage facility for a period of at least 10 years, or the period of time specified by the funder, if longer.""","""except where the right of individual researchers, or the subjects of the research, would be compromised.""",None,"""All research data produced by UoL researchers should be made openly available to the wider 
academic community with as few restrictions as possible in a timely manner... The route you take to making your data open will vary according to your research discipline and environment.""","""The storage and management of research data carries a cost� These costs should be written into research grant applications, where possible""","""This policy, and its implementation, will be kept under regular review by the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee.""",http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/computingservices/regulations/research-data-management-policy.pdf
8260109,University of Bath,Research Data Policy,None,None,None,"""Data management plans are expected to be written for all new research projects, irrespective of whether submission of such plans is required when applying for research funding.""","""This policy applies to all research conducted at the University, regardless of whether or not the research is externally funded. It includes research undertaken by research postgraduate students but is unlikely to include taught postgraduate or undergraduate research except in exceptional circumstances. """,None,"""Unless legal or funder requirements specify otherwise""","""Research data must be retained after project completion if they substantiate research findings, are of potential long-term value, support a patent application or if there are other legal requirements for data retention.""","""Unless legal or funder requirements specify otherwise, data must be retained for 10 years from the end of the project or the publication date of any research findings based upon them, after which retention will be reviewed.""","""Research data that have been selected for retention must be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible, unless this would breach legislative, regulatory, contractual, ethical or other obligations, or where the cost of doing so would be prohibitive.""","""All data that are retained should be registered with the University, whether they are hosted by the University or maintained elsewhere, even if access to the data is restricted.""","""Research data that have been selected for retention must be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible, unless this would breach legislative, regulatory, contractual, ethical or other obligations, or where the cost of doing so would be prohibitive.""","""Where possible researchers should seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data from the research funder.""",None,http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/data/policy/research-data-policy.html
8260138,London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,Research Data Management Policy,"""Definitions""",None,"""The School will provide a Data Repository that may be used to manage research data over time""","""A Data Management Plan should be produced for all research projects that are creating or capturing data""","""The Research Data Management Policy applies to all members of the School conducting research or involved in the creation, collection, or generation of research data""",None,"""Exemption will be granted if compliance will breach legislative, regulatory, contractual, ethical, and/or other obligations"" ""...boundaries of conditions established by contractual, legislative, ethical, or other requirements""","""Research data that substantiate research findings should be made available for access and use in a timely manner""","""research data must be kept for a minimum of 10 years following project completion""","""within the boundaries of conditions established by contractual, legislative, ethical, or other requirements""","""Research data created or captured by researchers must be registered with the School, irrespective of whether it is hosted at the School or elsewhere""","""Rights assigned to research data should not unnecessarily restrict its management, sharing, or use""","""Costs for data management and sharing activities should be written into research grant applications and research degree fellowship applications, unless explicitly forbidden by the funder""","""This policy will be reviewed annually by Academic Affairs""",http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/researchdataman/rdm_policy.html
8260161,University of Surrey,Research Data Management,"""considers research data to be any material collected, observed or created for the purpose of analysis and on which research conclusions are based.""","""The University of Surrey considers research data to be any material collected, observed or created for the purpose of analysis and on which research conclusions are based""","The University will provide training, support, advice and guidance regarding research data management through existing researcher development training programmes and web-based guidance. 2. The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration and retention of research data during a research project and after its completion. a. Principal Investigators must discuss data storage requirements with the relevant Faculty IT team at the bid stage of a research project as part of their data management planning. 3. The University will provide advice and guidance regarding deposit of research data in an appropriate external repository ","""Any research activity where research data may be created or re-used must include at the outset a data management plan or protocol that addresses how data will be captured, managed, retained, shared, published and how the integrity and confidentiality of data will be maintained."""," ""defines researchers as members of the University, including staff, doctoral and post-doctoral students, and those who are not members of the University but are conducting research on University premises or using University facilities.""",None,"""As data management requirements are set by the research sponsor any exemptions to this policy should be explicitly approved by the sponsor""","_Data of interest to future research, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered for deposit in an appropriate external data service or repository.�","""Data must be retained in an appropriate format, in a recognised repository, for a period of at least 10 years from the award or from the date of any publication which is based on that data. Where specific regulations to data retention apply, data should be retained in accordance with these regulations especially where the required retention period is longer. """,None,"""The University will provide advice and guidance regarding deposit of research data in an appropriate external repository.""",None,None,"Initial review data specified, not a fixed review period",http://www.surrey.ac.uk/policies/research_data_management_policy.pdf
8260149,University College London,Research Data Policy,"""Data are facts, observations or experiences on which an argument or theory is constructed or tested. Data may be numerical, descriptive, aural or visual. Data may be raw, abstracted or analysed, experimental or observational. Data include but are not limited to: laboratory notebooks; field notebooks; primary research data (including research data in hardcopy or in computer readable form); questionnaires; audiotapes; videotapes; models; photographs; films; test responses. Research collections may include slides; artefacts; specimens; samples.""","""Data are facts, observations or experiences on which an argument or theory is constructed or tested. Data may be numerical, descriptive, aural or visual. Data may be raw, abstracted or analysed, experimental or observational. Data include but are not limited to: laboratory notebooks; field notebooks; primary research data (including research data in hardcopy or in computer readable form); questionnaires; audiotapes; videotapes; models; photographs; films; test responses.""","Section 3 definies responsiblities. ""The UCL Research Data Services Team will provide advice on technical solutions for research data management 
and policy direction. UCL Library Services will provide guidance and advocacy for research data management, 
data deposition and related metadata description""","""It is good research practice, and frequently a requirement for grant applications, to plan data management before commencing any research activity. Often this is in the form of a data management plan.
It is the responsibility of the individual researcher, or the Principal Investigators if a team of researchers is involved, to generate and execute a data management plan. A template for Data Management Plans can be found on the Digital Curation Centre website""","""Data creators (students; supervisors and Researchers""",None,"In complying with this policy, UCL researchers will comply with all national and many international policies and requirements from funders of academic research","""Heads of Department should:...Establish and implement departmental procedures for the storage and retention of research data in line 
with University policy or legislative obligation""","""Retained for a munimum of ten years after publication or public release""","""Ensure that their plans and activities are documented in accordance with their obligations under good practice and any applicable legislation."" ""Be aware of their obligations and potential liability when handling data protected by the UK Data 
Protection Act (1998)"" ""Plan for the on-going custodial responsibilities for the research data at the conclusion of the research project or on departure from the University""","""The UCL Research Data Service will provide...An archive facility that will undertake long-term preservation activities""",None,"""Include within research grant proposals appropriate consideration of the cost and time implications of data storage & management within grant proposals.""","""This policy will be reviewed at least every 3 years by the RIISG and in consultation with the UCL Research Data and Network Services Executive.""",http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-it/documents/uclresearchdatapolicy.pdf
8260075,Sheffield Hallam University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"_The University will provide guidelines, advice and training on research data management, including data management plans, costing of research data management into research proposals, storage and data protection, creation of descriptive metadata, intellectual property and Freedom of Information requests for all researchers.�","_A data management plan must be produced for all research projects before they commence. Researchers will comply with funder data management requirements. However, where this is not specified, the University will provide a data management plan template for completion.�","_Responsibility for research data generated during a project lies with the principal investigator or in the case of a PhD project, the director of studies.�",None,_This policy applies to all publicly-funded research and is considered best-practice for all other research.�,"_Primary research data produced by University researchers that underpin a publication, which are of potential long-term value and/or support a patent application, must be stored centrally and published when possible�","_Data must be stored for a period at least as long as that required by any funder or sponsor of the research, any publisher of the research or as set out in the University's Research and Knowledge Transfer Records Retention Schedule.�","_If applicable, data must be prepared and offered for deposit in an open access data repository within the timeframe stipulated by the funder unless there are valid reasons not to do so. The latter could include commercial confidentiality, infringement of intellectual property rights, contractual agreements, ethical, legal or regulatory obligations, or where the cost of doing so would be prohibitive.�","_Primary research data produced by University researchers that underpin a publication, which are of potential long-term value and/or support a patent application, must be stored centrally�",_Exclusive rights to re-use or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use unless this is a condition of funding�,None,None,https://www4.shu.ac.uk/research/ethics/documents/SHUresearch-data-management-policy.pdf
8260157,The University of Reading,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide information, support and training to staff and students who generate and use data to ensure that they can manage their research data lawfully and effectively, understand the benefits of making their data widely available, and are aware of the means by which this can be done.""",None,_The University requires all researchers to ensure that research data collected and processed in the course of their research activities are managed in accordance with this policy�,None,"_The University will comply with all legal, ethical, funding body and organisational requirements for the collection, use, storage and sharing of data�",_Researchers are required to offer for preservation in a suitable data repository data that substantiate published research findings�,None,_particular attention must be paid to the requirements for ethical research conduct and of Data Protection legislation.�,_Data repositories managed by third parties should be used where this is appropriate. The University will provide a service to record these data holdings�,_Researchers are required to make reasonable efforts to secure the right to share relevant data openly. The University accepts that there are circumstances in which it is not possible to do this�,None,Annually,http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/reas/RDM_Policy_1-0.pdf
8260067,Middlesex University,Research Data Management,"_Research data can be defined as any digital object created during the course of research (which might include documents, still images, video and audio files, spreadsheets, software, computer code, databases or websites) in addition to physical objects such as sketchbooks, diaries, lab notebooks, portfolios, models or other artefacts. It also includes the documentation of Practice-as-Research.�",""" can be defined as any digital object created during the course of research (which might include documents, still images, video and audio files, spreadsheets, software, computer code, databases or websites) in addition to physical objects such as sketchbooks, diaries, lab notebooks, portfolios, models or other artefacts. It also includes the documentation of Practice-as-Research.""","A programme of guidance and training in all areas of RDM for all relevant stakeholders will be developed by Library & Student Support (LSS) in consultation with all Schools, the Research & Knowledge Transfer Office (RKTO) and the Computing and Communications Systems Service (CCSS) and Staff Development. The University will develop infrastructure and support to enable compliance with this policy.",All research proposals will include a Data Management Plan to be submitted with their grant application.,None,None,"_2.6 Each researcher must make themselves familiar with and adhere to the requirements of their particular funder, publishers and other relevant stakeholders.�",_2.4 Appropriate data should be selected to preserve post-project for 10 years unless funder or legal requirements specify otherwise at which point a review process will be triggered.�,_10 years unless funder or legal requirements specify�,"_2.3 Relevant ethics guidelines, intellectual property rights (including commercial implications), Copyright, and data protection must be considered.�",_Data selected for preservation must be registered in the institutional data catalogue within 12 months along with any associated restrictions and conditions of access.�,"_Research data should be made as open as possible unless there are legal, ethical, commercial, intellectual property or other reasons not to do so. An appropriate licence should be applied to manage the re-use of this data.�",None,_This policy was approved by Academic Board on Thursday 25 June 2015. To be reviewed in June 2018.�,http://www.mdx.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0037/169399/Research_Data_Management_Policy_APS_27.pdf
8260158,The University of Salford,Research Data Management Policy,"_Research data are quantitative information or qualitative statements collected by researchers in the course of their work by experimentation, observation, interview or other methods. Data may be raw or primary (e.g. direct from measurement or collection), derived from primary data for subsequent analysis or interpretation (e.g. cleaned up or as an extract from a larger data set) or administrative (documents about the research project). The purpose of open research data is to provide the information necessary to support or validate a research project's observations, findings or outputs. Data is subject specific and may include, for example, statistics, collections of digital images, sound recordings, musical scores, transcripts of interviews, computer source code, simulations, survey data and fieldwork observations with appropriate annotations�","""Research data are quantitative information or qualitative statements collected by researchers in the course of their work by experimentation, observation, interview or other methods. Data may be raw or primary (e.g. direct from measurement or collection), derived from primary data for subsequent analysis or interpretation (e.g. cleaned up or as an extract from a larger data set) or administrative (documents about the research project). The purpose of open research data is to provide the information necessary to support or validate a research project's observations, findings or outputs. Data is subject specific and may include, for example, statistics, collections of digital images, sound recordings, musical scores, transcripts of interviews, computer source code, simulations, survey data and fieldwork observations with appropriate annotations""","""The University will provide the support, guidance and training to enable effective research
data management throughout the research lifecycle (See Related Documentation""","""Every research project should produce a Data Management Plan (DMP) before starting the project""",_The policy applies to all research data created by academic staff and postgraduate research students (PGRs). The policy does not apply to postgraduate taught students or undergraduates�,None,"_The PI must ensure that all research data is generated, stored and managed in accordance with contractual, legislative, regulatory, ethical and other relevant requirements�","_Researchers are responsible for selecting and appraising data for depositing; this will be subject specific but best practice states that this should be research data which have potential long-term value, verify published research findings, or have legal or funder requirements for data retention�",None,_Sensitive and confidential research data can be shared ethically and legally if planned from the beginning of the project�,"_Research data should be deposited in an appropriate external data centre, or if one is not available, in the University of Salford Data Repository�","""Research data selected for archiving must be made openly available, where appropriate, with as few restrictions as possible""","""Researchers should, where applicable, seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data in the grant from the funder""",2 years by January 2018,http://www.salford.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/674208/ResearchDataManagementPolicy.pdf
8260110,University of Birmingham,University RDM Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide mechanisms and services for funder-compliant storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects. These services may be University, collaborative, national or international data services or domain repositories.""","""From 2015, all new research proposals must include research data management plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, ownership, sharing and publication.""",""" all those undertaking research within the University (including taught students) hae a responsibility to manage their data effectively.""",None,None,"""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention """,None,"""Research data management plans must ensure that research data are available for access and re-use where appropriate and under appropriate safeguards. The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected. Personal and sensitive data should be protected in line with current legislation and also the University�s Code of Ethics.""","""Any data which is retained elsewhere, for example in an international data service or domain repository should be registered with the University.""","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.""","""Researchers should seek, where possible, to cover the direct costs of research data management from the research funder.""",None,https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/libraryservices/library/services/research/rdm/rdm-principles.aspx
8260065,Liverpool John Moores University,Research Data Policy: information and guidance,"""Observational: data captured in real-time, usually irreplaceable. For example, sensor data, survey data, sample data, neuroimages. Experimental: Data from lab equipment, often reproducible, but can be instrument specific. For example, gene sequences, chromatograms, toroid magnetic field data. Simulation: data generated from test models where model and metadata are more important than output data. For example, climate models, economic models. Derived or compiled: data is reproducible but expensive. For example, text and data mining, compiled database, 3D models. Reference or canonical: a (static or organic) conglomeration or collection of smaller (peer-reviewed) datasets, most probably published and curated. For example, gene sequence databanks, chemical structures, or spatial data portals. Research data can take many forms, for example: Documents (text, Word), spreadsheets Laboratory notebooks, field notebooks, diaries Questionnaires, transcripts, codebooks Audiotapes, videotapes Photographs, films Test responses Slides, artefacts, specimens, samples Digital objects acquired and generated during the process Data files Database contents (video, audio, text, images) Models, algorithms, scripts Contents of an application (input, output, logfiles for analysis software, 5 LJMU Research Data Policy April 2013 Andrew J Young simulation software, schemas) Methodologies and workflows Standard operating procedures (SOPs)""","""Observational: data captured in real-time, usually irreplaceable. For example, sensor data, survey data, sample data, neuroimages. Experimental: Data from lab equipment, often reproducible, but can be instrument specific. For example, gene sequences, chromatograms, toroid magnetic field data. Simulation: data generated from test models where model and metadata are more important than output data. For example, climate models, economic models. Derived or compiled: data is reproducible but expensive. For example, text and data mining, compiled database, 3D models. Reference or canonical: a (static or organic) conglomeration or collection of smaller (peer-reviewed) datasets, most probably published and curated. For example, gene sequence databanks, chemical structures, or spatial data portals. Research data can take many forms, for example: Documents (text, Word), spreadsheets Laboratory notebooks, field notebooks, diaries Questionnaires, transcripts, codebooks Audiotapes, videotapes Photographs, films Test responses Slides, artefacts, specimens, samples Digital objects acquired and generated during the process Data files Database contents (video, audio, text, images) Models, algorithms, scripts Contents of an application (input, output, logfiles for analysis software, 5 LJMU Research Data Policy April 2013 Andrew J Young simulation software, schemas) Methodologies and workflows Standard operating procedures (SOPs)""","""The University plans to make available the institutional digital repository (_LJMU Research Online�) for longer-term data storage and sharing. Further details will be made available once this functionality is available""","""An increasing number of research funders formally require a data management plan to be submitted as part of a grant application � In some cases, a full plan is not needed but you may be asked to outline your plans for the treatment and ultimately the sharing of data.""",None,None,None,"""Many funders now stipulate that you must share your raw data as well as your final research outputs in an open access repository of some sort.""
""Data needs to be properly organised in order to make it useable by yourself and others. This should be on done on a day-to-day basis as part of your ongoing research. Metadata (often referred to as �data about data�) can be used to help define the data sets in such a way that large data sets are readily searchable. To do this metadata tags are used to assist the user. These fall into three broad categories: Descriptive: Commonly used fields such as title, author, abstract and keywords. Administrative: Preservation, rights management and technical metadata about formats. Structural: How different components of a set of associated data, such as tables in a database, relate to one another.""
","""You should allow for your data to be securely preserved for at least 10 years from the last date when it was viewed by a third party.""","""Personal or sensitive data may not be suitable for sharing with others, depending on whether informed consent has been obtained from participants. You may wish to consider anonymisation techniques or data aggregation for numeric data, editing of video or sound recordings, use of pseudonyms in qualitative data etc.""","""The University plans to make available the institutional digital repository (_LJMU Research Online�) for longer-term data storage and sharing. Further details will be made available once this functionality is available.""",None,None,"""This document considers each of the above elements and will be reviewed on at least an annual basis""",https://www2.ljmu.ac.uk/RGSO/RGSO_Docs/ljmu_data_policy_april_2013_ajy1.pdf
8260143,The Royal Veterinary College,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The College will provide training, support and advice to facilitate the creation and implementation of research data management and research data management plans.""
""The College will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets, supporting future access after project completion.""
","""All new research proposals must include research data management plans addressing data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.""",None,"""Unless the terms of research grants or contracts provide otherwise, data generated by research projects are the property of the Royal Veterinary College.""","""Unless the terms of research grants or contracts provide otherwise""",None,None,"""The College is committed to the ethos of open access to research data, within the parameters of intellectual property protection and contractual requirements.""
""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.""
","""Research data will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or a College repository. Data retained elsewhere, must be registered with the College.""","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.""","""Where possible, researchers should seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data generated by projects from the research funder.""",None,http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Media/Default/Research%20Data%20Management/Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy_Executive%20Summary%20-%20report.docx
8260141,Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,Research Data Management Policy,"""'Research data' is defined here as the recorded information (regardless of the form or the media) necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs.""","""'Research data' is defined here as the recorded information (regardless of the form or the media) necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs.""","""The College is responsible for the provision of training, support and advice on research data management and such resources/infrastructure or access to resources/infrastructure as necessary for the successful implementation of this policy.""","""A Data Management Plan (DMP) that explicitly addresses the capture, management (including the safe storage of active research data), integrity, confidentiality, preservation, sharing and publication of research data must be created and stored in the College�s research information system, Pure, by the PI for each proposed research project or funding application.""","""Responsibility for research data management during any research project or programme lies with the Principal Investigator (PI)""",None,"""Research data will be managed to agreed standards throughout the research data lifecycle and according to College and funder requirements.""","""All research data should be offered and assessed for deposit and preservation in an appropriate College, national or international data service or domain repository""",None,"""DMPs should take account of and ensure compliance with relevant legislative frameworks which may limit public access to the data (for example, in the areas of data protection, intellectual property and human rights)""","""All research data should be offered and assessed for deposit and preservation in an appropriate College, national or international data service or domain repository, unless specified otherwise in the DMP.""","""Data should not be deposited with any organisation that does not commit to its access and availability for re-use, unless this is a condition of the project funding or arising from other requirements""",None,"""The College Research Committee will be responsible for reviewing and updating this policy.""",https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research/documents/researchpdf/royalhollowayresearchdatamanagementpolicyjune2014.pdf
8260164,The University of York,Research Data Management Policy,"""Recorded material, irrespective of format or media, commonly retained and accepted in the academic community as being necessary to validate research findings. Created in the course of the research process, research data will be the recorded facts, observations, measurements, computations, statistics and results that underpin the research paper and grant or project outcomes.""","All data necessary to reconstruct the researcher�s process of analysis and to validate their findings. Funder requirements focus on the �primary� research data and inputs into the research process, which underpin the research process and findings. Likewise the first order results that derive from that process _ which enable the findings and outputs to be validated and in some cases may have an enduring value of their own. University Research Data Management Policy refers.""","""The University has a responsibility to ensure that systems are in place to support and reinforce good research data management and research integrity. The University is responsible for:
providing access to services and facilities for the storage, backup, deposit, retention and long-term curation and archiving of research data that allows researchers to meet their requirements under this policy and those of the funders for their research;
raising awareness of best practice in research data management in which legal, ethical and professional requirements and standards are considered whenever research data are created, handled, used, shared or stored; and
providing researchers with access to training, support and specialist guidance and advice on research data management.""
",""" Principal Investigators, University project leads and supervisors are responsible for � producing and adhering to a Data Management Plan (DMP) as required by the funder or specified by the Department;""","""This policy is binding on all University members engaged in research, including staff and research students, and those who are conducting research on behalf of the University.""","""ownership of data generated by research projects will be subject to the Intellectual Property Regulations, the Regulations for Research Degrees and Regulations on assessment at the University of York unless the terms of research grants or contracts determine otherwise.""","""Research data will be managed in line with funder requirements as well as University policy and other relevant regulations and legislation.""","""Accurate, complete, authentic and reliable;
Identifiable, retrievable, and available when needed;
Secure and safe with appropriate measures taken in handling sensitive, classified and confidential data;
Kept in a manner that is compliant with legal obligations, University policy and, where applicable, the requirements of funding bodies; and
Preserved for its life-cycle with the appropriate high-quality metadata""
","""Research data must be retained and securely disposed of according to the relevant retention and disposal schedule, in accordance with legal, ethical, research funder and collaborator requirements and with particular concern for the confidentiality and security of the data. Unless otherwise required research data should be retained for 10 year from date of last requested access, and its storage location recorded.""","""with particular concern for the confidentiality and security of the data.""","""Where possible, relevant elements of research data must be deposited in an appropriate national or international subject-based repository, according to their policies.""",None,"""ensuring that the costs for research data storage and curation are identified and addressed;""","""Review cycle: Three yearly""",https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/support-and-admin/information-services/information-policy/index/research-data-management-policy/
8260170,The University of Aberdeen,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will aim to set in place appropriate and sustainable research data management infrastructures and services to enable and ensure easy, secure and continued access to research data, and support the PI in drawing up and implementing the DMP.""","""Research proposals should include a data management plan (DMP), appropriate to need, which addresses key elements of data management practice throughout the research project and for the longer term including data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, sharing, depositing and if necessary disposal of research data.""","""The Principal Investigator (PI) should be primarily responsible for research data management practice""",None,"""the Research Data Management Policy sets out the guiding principles for managing and curating data generated within the institution, complying with requirements from funding bodies ""","""The Principal Investigator has a responsibility to assess which research data should be offered for deposit""",None,"""Data Management Plans should take into account appropriate public access to research data under appropriate safeguards or legitimate restrictions, specified on ethical, legal, regulatory, commercial conditions of funding.""","""The Principal Investigator has a responsibility to assess which research data should be offered for deposit; to identify an appropriate repository; to specify appropriate levels of access to the data; and to consult relevant third parties (e.g. research participants; academic and non-academic partners) in making these decisions.""","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding or other agreed third party rights.""",None,None,http://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/documents/policy-zone-research-and-knowledge-exchange/DRAFTResearchDataManagementPolicy.pdf
8260066,The Manchester Metropolitan University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University is responsible for the provision of training support and advice on research data management""","""A data management plan that explicitly addresses the capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, preservation, sharing and publication of research data must be created for each proposed research project or funding application.""","""This policy applies to any data that is created or acquired in research projects (funded or unfunded) involving staff and/or students of the University""",None,"""unless this is a condition of the project funding""","""All research data should be offered and assessed for deposit""",None,"""Data management plans should take account of and ensure compliance with relevant legislative frameworks which may limit public access to the data (for example, in the areas of data protection, intellectual property and human rights).""","""All research data should be offered and assessed for deposit and preservation in an appropriate University, national or international data service or domain repository, unless specified otherwise in the data management plan.""","""Data should not be deposited with any organisation that does not commit to its access and availability for re-use, unless this is a condition of the project funding or arising from other requirements.""",None,One year,https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/research/Manchester-Metropolitan-University-Research-Data-Management-Policy.pdf
8260002,Cranfield University,Management of Research Data Policy,"""'Data set' here includes any factual material collected and retained during the project and needed to validate the findings, in digital and other formats""","""'Data set' here includes any factual material collected and retained during the project and needed to validate the findings, in digital and other formats""",None,"""In line with RCUK principles a research project should have a data management plan. This would typically include: who may have access to the data, and on what terms; where the data are located and how they are accessed; and how they are kept""","""Conformance with this policy is the responsibility of the PI or the person having overall responsibility for the project.""",None,"""Researchers should ensure that provision is made in research proposals for data collection, storage and ongoing preservation/management for the period determined by the research council or other funding body""","""subject metadata (structured data about the data in the dataset) should be recorded and made available to enable other researchers to understand the potential for further research and re-use of the data where appropriate. Published results should always include information on how and in what terms supporting data may be accessed. Where the research data are a digital object, it is expected that the metadata will include use of a robust persistent link (e.g. a DOI).""","""Researchers should manage the data to ensure that it is accessible (as appropriate) and fit for purpose, for the duration specified by the specific Research Council.""","""Where data are withheld, there should be a specific statement about why in the published document(s), e.g. for legal, ethical or commercial reasons.""","""The University has developed further integration between CRIS and CERES to provide an RDM solution to maximise the retrieval, sharing and re-use of data.""","""Published results should always include information on how and in what terms supporting data may be accessed.""","""costs of doing so are fully taken into account in the bid submission through discussion with relevant support and service functions where necessary.""",One year,https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/~/media/Files/Files-web-migration/management-of-research-data-policy-cu.ashx
8260069,The University of Northumbria at Newcastle,Research Data Management Policy,"""Research in the context of this policy is based on the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Research Excellence Framework (REF) definition, contained in Annex C of the �Assessment Framework and Guidance on Submissions�5 , which defines research as �a process of investigation leading to new insights, effectively shared.� It includes work of direct relevance to the needs of commerce, industry, and to the public and voluntary sectors; scholarship; the invention and generation of ideas, images, performances, artefacts including design, where these lead to new or substantially improved insights; and the use of existing knowledge in experimental development to produce new or substantially improved materials, devices, products and processes, including design and construction. It excludes routine testing and routine analysis of materials, components and processes such as for the maintenance of national standards, as distinct from the development of new analytical techniques. It also excludes the development of teaching materials that do not embody original research.""","""research data refer to any material collected, observed or created for the purpose of analysis and on which research conclusions are based. Research data may be numerical, descriptive or visual, and can be digital, paper-based or in other forms.""","""The University will provide training, support, advice and guidance regarding research data management through the researcher development training programme (including the PGR training programme) and web-based guidance. ii) The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration and retention of research data during a research project and after its completion.""","""Data management plans should be written for all new research projects, regardless of whether submission of such plans is required when applying for research funding. The plan must address how the data will be captured, managed, retained, shared, published, and how any confidentiality issues will be addressed.""","""The policy applies to all research conducted by staff and postgraduate research students at the University, regardless of whether it is funded or unfunded.""",None,"""unless other funder regulations apply""","""Researchers must provide sufficient metadata and explanatory documentation about their research data to ensure that data are discoverable, understandable and re-useable.""","""Data must be retained in an appropriate format for a period of at least 1 year from the end of the project for low risk projects, 3 years for moderate risk projects and 7 years for high risk projects, in accordance with the University�s Research Records Retention Schedule8 , unless other funder regulations apply (for example, EPSRC stipulates a retention period of 10 years, plus an additional 10 from the last date at which access to the data was requested by a third party).""","""Data should be made available for access and re-use where legally, ethically and commercially appropriate.""","""Where possible, or if mandated by the funder, retained data must be submitted to an appropriate archive or database for long-term preservation.""
""All data which are created as part of research at Northumbria University must be registered with the University, even if the data are hosted elsewhere.""
",None,None,"""The policy will be reviewed every six months""",https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/media/7264815/research-data-management-policy-v7.pdf
8260053,The University of Central Lancashire,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University is responsible for the provision of a managed repository service for secure archiving, preservation and long-term storage of completed digital research data and open access research publications, including journal articles and conference papers. The University provides training, support and advice on all aspects of research data management.""","""All researchers are encouraged to develop a DMP at the outset of any research project, however it is funded""","""All academics at UCLan who produce or work with data generated as a result of research, regardless of how that research is funded; All academics who supervise or co-supervise postgraduate research students; All postgraduate research students""","""Ownership of intellectual property (IP) created by UCLan staff is clarified in the University Policy on Intellectual Property (Section 2.1-2.3).""","""In cases where researchers may be affected by a number of policies, funder policy should take precedence.""","""As a minimum, where a dataset underpins published research""",None,"""Legitimate reasons for non-deposit of data include ethical, legal and commercial constraints; where feasible, issues preventing data sharing should be identified prior to data generation""","""All digital research data that has been selected by the Data Steward or research group for retention should be deposited in the UCLan data repository or a suitable national or international data service or subject repository within 12 months of generation.""","""Except where this is a condition of funding, exclusive rights to research data must not be handed, sold or licensed to external parties.""","""Researchers should ensure that the costs of research data management and any additional data storage required are included in grant applications to external funders where permitted.""","""The Research and Innovation Committee will be responsible for reviewing and updating this policy as recommended by the Research Data Management Steering Group. The policy will be reviewed at least annually""",https://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/environment/assets/rdm-policy-approved.pdf
8260112,The University of Bristol,Research Data Management and Open Data Policy,"""Data, or units of information which are created in the course of funded or unfunded research, and often arranged or formatted in such a way as to make them suitable for communication, interpretation, and processing.""","""Data, or units of information which are created in the course of funded or unfunded research, and often arranged or formatted in such a way as to make them suitable for communication, interpretation, and processing.""","""The University provides a secure Research Data Storage Facility that researchers are strongly encouraged to use. A limited amount of free storage is available to Data Stewards, although a charge may be incurred for larger deposits. 22. The University will preserve and provide access to research data, beyond the duration of a research activity and in accordance with specific retention requirements. 23. The University provides a research data repository to allow researchers to openly publish their data. 24. The University Research Data Repository also provides methods and procedures for controlled access to restricted data for external bona fide researchers. 25. The University provides advice and support to researchers involved with data management planning. 26. The University offers training and guidance to researchers actively involved with the creation and management of research data. 27. The University offers support to researchers in the process of depositing research data in the University's Research Data Repository or appropriate external data service.""","""The Principal Investigator (PI)/ Data Steward of a project has ultimate responsibility for research data management and should ensure that a Data Management Plan is written before the research commences.""","""This policy applies to all research conducted by University staff and postgraduate research students (PGRs) regardless of whether or not the research is externally funded. The policy does not currently apply to taught postgraduate students or undergraduates (apart from in exceptional circumstances).""","""In general the following principles apply: � Where research is carried out under a grant or contract, the terms of the agreement will determine ownership and rights to exploit the data; � Where no external contract exists, the University normally has ownership of primary data generated in the course of research undertaken by researchers in its employment; � The University does not automatically own student Intellectual Property (IP), although in some circumstances students may be required to assign IP to the University. For example, where research is carried out under third-party contract or funding, or where the data is produced under third party contract or funding and /or with the significant involvement of University employees.""","""Where research is carried out under a grant or contract, the terms of the agreement will determine ownership and rights to exploit the data""","""research data that a Data Steward feels underpins a published research output or will be of wider use to the research community should be deposited""",None,"""The interests of the research participants must be considered at all times, in line with the University�s information security policies3 and Ethics of Research Policy and Procedure""","""deposited in the University's Research Data Repository (or other repository) in a form suitable for long-term retention and, where possible, wider publication.""","""Except where this is a condition of a grant or contract, exclusive rights to research data must not be assigned, licenced or otherwise transferred to external parties""","""Researchers should take into account any likely costs for storing and managing their research data during the lifetime of the project. The time and cost for storage and management should be explicitly written into research applications (where permissible), including instances where data will need to be made publicly available or curated for many years beyond the project lifetime""",None,http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/university/documents/governance/UOB_RDM_Policy.pdf
8260176,University of Wales Trinity Saint David,Group Research Data Management Policy,"""Research and experimental development (R&D) is defined as per the Frascati manual, as �creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications�. The term R&D covers three activities: basic research, applied research and experimental development. � Basic research is experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view. � Applied research is also original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge. It is, however, directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective. � Experimental development is systematic work, drawing on existing knowledge gained from research and/or practical experience, which is directed to producing new materials, products or devices, to installing new processes, systems and services, or to improve substantially those already produced or installed. R&D covers both formal R&D in R&D units and informal or occasional R&D in other units. 3.2 Research data is defined as that which is collected, observed, or created for purposes of analysing to produce original research results. Such research data are the recorded information, regardless of the form or the media in which they may exist, necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs. In practice, the nature of research data can vary widely depending on discipline. It can be textual, numerical, qualitative, quantitative, final, preliminary, physical, digital or print. It excludes administrative documents (such as job descriptions, emails or financial reports) and teaching materials. Research data comes in very many formats, including: Word documents, PDFs, spread sheets, CDs, DVDs, scanned lab books, online surveys, digital recordings, databases or computer software. It may include, but is not limited to: � Instrument measurements � Experimental observations � Still images, video and audio � Text documents, spreadsheets, databases � Manuscripts, historical records and archive materials � Quantitative data (e.g. household survey data) � Survey results & interview transcripts � Simulation data, models & software � Slides, artefacts, specimens, samples 3.3 Researchers are defined as members of the University, including staff and doctoral students, honorary and visiting research fellows, and those who are not members of the University but who are conducting research on University premises or using University resources and facilities. 3.4 Funded research is defined as that which is supported by an external research grant.""","""Research data is defined as that which is collected, observed, or created for purposes of analysing to produce original research results. Such research data are the recorded information, regardless of the form or the media in which they may exist, necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs. In practice, the nature of research data can vary widely depending on discipline. It can be textual, numerical, qualitative, quantitative, final, preliminary, physical, digital or print. It excludes administrative documents (such as job descriptions, emails or financial reports) and teaching materials. Research data comes in very many formats, including: Word documents, PDFs, spread sheets, CDs, DVDs, scanned lab books, online surveys, digital recordings, databases or computer software. It may include, but is not limited to: � Instrument measurements � Experimental observations � Still images, video and audio � Text documents, spreadsheets, databases � Manuscripts, historical records and archive materials � Quantitative data (e.g. household survey data) � Survey results & interview transcripts � Simulation data, models & software � Slides, artefacts, specimens, samples""","""the University will provide training, support and advice for the research data management and research data management plans. The University will also advise on and provide the necessary mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.""","""All new research proposals for funded research must include research data management plans that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.""","""Researchers are defined as members of the University, including staff and doctoral students, honorary and visiting research fellows, and those who are not members of the University but who are conducting research on University premises or using University resources and facilities.""","""Subject to third party interests, and in accordance with the University�s Intellectual Property Policy, research data which supports a scholarly work produced by a member of University staff, shall be owned by the University and retained for an appropriate period of time in accordance with Point 4.14. This period may extend beyond the period of employment of the staff member with the University.""
""Subject to third party interests and in accordance with the University�s Intellectual Property Policy, research data which supports a scholarly work produced by a student of the University, will remain the intellectual property of the student and be retained for an appropriate period of time in accordance with Point 4.14.""
","""Research data must be created, maintained and shared in accordance with contractual, legislative, regulatory, ethical and other relevant requirements.""
""Where research is supported by a contract with, or a grant to the University that includes specific provisions regarding ownership, retention of and access to data, the provisions of that agreement will take precedence.""
","""Research data should be accompanied by high-quality documentation and metadata to provide secondary users with essential information to independently understand the data, enable discovery, and allow for scientific re-use. Documentation should describe at least the origin of data, fieldwork and data collection methods, processing and/or the researcher�s management of the data. Individual data items such as variables or transcripts should be clearly labelled and described.""","""Research data generated through funded projects, and any associated records should be retained for as long as they are of continuing value to the researcher and the wider research community, and as long as specified by research funder, patent law, legislative and other regulatory requirements.""","""The primary legislation in this respect to 4.12 is The Data Protection Act (1998) which requires that data obtained from research with people must be anonymised so that individuals, organisations or businesses cannot be identified before it can be shared with other researchers or archived.""","""Research data created or captured by University researchers through funded projects should be offered to an appropriate data repository, or one designated by the Funder � The University will also provide a Data Repository that may be used to manage funded research data over time, in such cases that deposit in an external repository is not possible.""",None,"""Where permitted, the management and sharing of research data should be supported through the allocation of research funding. Such funding should seek to recover the costs of any need for long-term curation and dissemination that requires the provision of staff and system resources. Information Technology and Systems will provide a schedule of associated costs.""","""The University will review the content and implementation of this policy on an annual basis.""",http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/media/uwtsd-website/content-assets/documents/strategies-policies/Research-Data-Management-Policy-27.01.16.pdf
8260009,Buckinghamshire New University,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""Research data includes, but is not limited to text files, spreadsheets, transcripts, photographs, film, audiotapes, data files, database content and artefacts.""","""The University will ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to enable deposit, storage and access to data.""","""All researchers should include research data management plans in line with funders� requirements. All plans should address data capture, documentation and metadata, ethical and legal compliance, storage and backup, and selection of data for long term storage.""","""This policy applies to approved research projects conducted at the University by all staff and postgraduate research students regardless of whether they are externally funded or not.""","""The ownership of research data and any derivative intellectual property in collaborative projects should be established before the start of a project.""","""unless specific retention periods are specified by the funders.""","""Not all research data is suitable for long term preservation, but, as a guide, all data that underpins research publications and validates research findings should be preserved.""","""Data will normally be retained for at least 10 years from the date of any publication which is based on it unless specific retention periods are specified by the funders.""","""In common with all UK Higher Education Institutions, the University is required to comply with specific requirements such as those under the Prevent counter-terrorism statutory responsibility for manging security-sensitive research data. This Policy includes the requirement for such information to be secured and to offer access only to those who need it for study and research and having been approved as such by the University Ethics Panel""","""All research data must be registered with the University whether it is hosted by the University or retained elsewhere.""",None,"""Where possible, researchers should seek to recover any cost associated with research data management from the funding body.""",Review date: Jun-2021,"https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiq8s-ixtzNAhWqAcAKHa_FDucQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbucks.ac.uk%2Fcontent%2Fdocuments%2FFormal_Documents%2FResearch%2FResearch_Data_Management_Policy.pdf&usg=AFQjCNH0QLdxUVepF9WCzj6wDx2X18QBKA&sig2=2uikKRX-m0dD34kLpwBb5g&bvm=bv.126130881,d.ZGg"
8260040,Leeds Trinity University,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""Research data means information in digital, computer-readable format or paper- based that:
is contained or presented in various ways including notes, facts, figures, tables, images (still and moving), audio or visual recordings; and
which is collected, generated or obtained during the course of or as a result of undertaking research (which includes but is not limited to conducting field or laboratory experiments, conducting trials, surveys, interviews, focus groups or analysis of data); and
which is subsequently used by the researcher as a basis for making calculations or drawing conclusions to develop, support or revise theories, practices and findings.""
","""The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.""","""A Data Management Plan that explicitly addresses the capture, management, integrity, accessibility, usability, confidentiality, preservation, sharing and publication of research data must be created for each proposed research project or funding application at the outset.""",None,None,"""Research data will be managed in accordance with funder, legislative and ethical requirements throughout the research data lifecycle.""","""At the completion of each research project, the PI should ensure that all relevant research data are made available, subject to meeting appropriate requirements, in the location specified in the data management plan.""",None,"""Data management plans should take account of and ensure compliance with relevant legislative frameworks which may limit public access to the data (for example, in the areas of data protection, intellectual property and human rights).""","""All research data should be offered for deposit and preservation in the University�s PURE Research Information System in a citable form, unless specified otherwise in the Data Management Plan.""","""Data should not be deposited with any organisation that does not commit to its access and availability for re-use. Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers without retaining the rights to make the data openly available, unless this is a condition of funding.""","""Where possible, researchers should seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data generated by projects from the research funder.""",None,http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/Key%20Documents/Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy.pdf
8260048,Bath Spa University,Research Data Policy ,Yes,"""[data] may be constituted as anything created, captured or collected as an output of research in its original state. Data includes, but is not limited to, sound files, images, sketchbooks, lab books, performances, or text files.""","""The University affirms its commitment to managing research data with integrity and in accordance with best practice requirements of the Higher Education sector.""","""Data Management Plans must be developed, with the support of the Research Support Office, for all externally-funded research projects.""","""The Principal Investigator for each research project is responsible for the management of data on that project.""",None,"""The policy applies primarily to externally-funded research, although it is expected that all research data will be treated with integrity.""","""Research data should be retained after the project lifetime if they have potential value because they substantiate research findings, if they support any commercialised research, or if there are any funder requirements.""",None,"""Data should be stored in an accessible format that abides by all necessary and appropriate ethical considerations""",None,"""Research data should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible.""","""Where possible researchers should seek to recover any costs associated with research data management from the funding body.""","""This policy will be revisited regularly to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of the Higher Education sector.""",http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/Media/Regulations/BSU_Research%20Data%20Policy-1.pdf
8260077,Staffordshire University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,None,"""the Principal Investigator is, at an early stage of their research project, encouraged to produce and then follow a data management plan (DMP)""",""" the
university expects researchers""",None,"""Manage data according to the research funder�s data policy, best ethical practice and all relevant legislation.""","""Keep clear and accurate records of the research procedures followed and the results obtained, including interim results""","""Make relevant primary data and research evidence accessible to others for reuse where appropriate and for reasonable periods after the completion of the research. Data should normally be preserved and accessible for at least 10 years.""","""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.""","""Wherever possible, deposit data permanently within a national collection and register this with the University. If no appropriate national collection exists then following the completion of the research project all data will be deposited in a secure central storage facility to be provided by the university.""","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.""",None,None,https://www.staffs.ac.uk/assets/Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy_tcm44-88619.pdf
8260097,Glasgow School of Art,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""Research data means data in the form of facts, observations, images, computer program results, recordings, measurements or experiences on which a research output is based. Data may be numerical, descriptive, visual or tactile. It may be raw, cleaned or processed, and may be held in any format or media. Research data in the visual arts mirrors the complexity of the outputs, taking many forms including logbooks, journals, workbooks, sample libraries, sketchbooks, sets of images, video recordings, trials, prototypes, ceramic glaze recipes, found objects, and correspondence. Provenance information about the data might also be included: the how, when, where it was collected and with what (for example, instrument). This metadata facilitates later interpretation and re-use of data.""","""Research data management bestows a number of obligations on both individual researchers and the School.""","""Research proposals should include research data management plans where appropriate. These plans will generally consider data capture, management and curation, storage, handling, retention, dissemination, and publication""","""Research produced by the School�s researchers, staff and students should strive to achieve the highest standards of integrity and quality""",None,"""Lead researchers are responsible for ensuring that research data management requirements are observed at all stages of a research project""","""Seek advice on data management from the Research Information Manager where required, particularly in order to identify key data for retention""","""Data should be retained intact in an appropriate secure format, normally for a period of 10 years from the date of publication, depending on funder requirements""","""Work within all relevant legislative frameworks, including Data Protection and Human Rights legislation, particularly in relation to sensitive data""","""Research data should deposited and retained in an appropriate institutional form, or national or international repository. Information about data which is retained outside of the RADAR institutional repository or the GSA Archives should be registered with the School.""",None,None,None,http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/GSAResearchDataManagement_DRAFT.pdf
8260108,Aston University,Research Data Management Policy,"research data are defined as factual records, which may take the form of numbers, symbols, text, images or sounds, used as primary sources for research, and that are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings. Data may comprise primary raw data or secondary analysed data.""","research data are defined as factual records, which may take the form of numbers, symbols, text, images or sounds, used as primary sources for research, and that are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings. Data may comprise primary raw data or secondary analysed data.""","""Providing access to services and facilities for the storage, backup, deposit and retention of research data and records that allow researchers to meet their requirements under this policy and those of the funders of their research; � Providing researchers with access to training, support and advice in research data and records management via Library Services; � Providing the necessary resources to those central services (expected to be Library Services, the Research and Enterprise Office and IT Services) responsible for the provision of these services, facilities and training.""","""At the outset of a research project, a Data Management Plan should be considered which documents clear procedures for the collection, storage, use, re-use, access and retention or destruction of the research data""","""This policy sets out the expectations that the University has of researchers and students with regards to the management of data arising from their research and the roles of the various individuals or services that will support this during the lifecycle of research data.""",None,"""Kept in a manner that is compliant with legal obligations and, where applicable, the requirements of funding bodies""
""Ensuring that any requirements in relation to research data and records management placed on their research by funding bodies or regulatory agencies or under the terms of a research contract with the University are also met.""
",None,"""Data should be retained for a period which follows best practice in the discipline or funder requirements. If none exist, data will be retained by default for a period of 10 years after which a review takes place in deciding whether the data is worth keeping for longer.""","""Able to be made available to others in line with appropriate ethical, data sharing and open access principles.""","""Data should be stored in a secure data repository suited to the data concerned. Aston provides a data archiving solution (Arkivum) linked to the Research Data Repository. Any data which is retained outside Aston, for example in an international data service or domain repository, should be registered with the University by including the associated metadata and a link in e-prints.""",None,None,"""The implementation of this policy will be overseen by the University Research Committee and reviewed by this committee every two years""",http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=21606439
8260121,The University of Keele,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide training, support, advice and, where appropriate, guidelines and templates for research data management and research data management plans.""","""All new research proposals (from date of adoption) must include research data management plans or protocols that specifically address the issues of data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication, and state explicitly the vailability of data for access and re-use (including safeguards).""",None,"""The University owns the data generated by its research""",""" in accordance with the research funders� requirements.""","""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or a University repository.""",None,"""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.""","""will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or a University repository.""","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without the rights to make data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.""",None,None,http://www.keele.ac.uk/researchsupport/researchdatamanagement/
8260154,The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,Research Data Management Policy Principles & Code of Good Practice,None,None,"""University Research Committee (URC) has overall responsibility for the institution�s research data strategy and its implementation and support. URC devolves responsibility for individual research projects to the project PI, however it recognises that for the PI to effectively perform their responsibilities they must be supported by other academic staff, academic units and the central services.""","""Each project should have a data management plan which details all key information on the project,""","""All research projects undertaken by Newcastle University staff and its postgraduate students are covered by the Policy and Code of Good Practice.""","""Unless explicitly agreed the University owns the intellectual property rights, including copyright, to the research data created by researchers during the term of their employment with the University.""","""It does not replace or override guidance from research funders; it should instead be considered as a complementary resource.""","""The University mandates that the project data underpinning publication should remain accessible""","""Responsibility for data management / storage is not over at project end. The University mandates that the project data underpinning publication should remain accessible, and where appropriate discoverable, for 10 years.""","""ensuring data collection, storage, processing and dissemination is in line with legal and funder requirements""","""ISS provides a list of repositories which adhere to the appropriate legal and regulatory standards. If no suitable / approved repository exists or it is inappropriate to store the data outside the institution then ISS is able to provide appropriate storage.""","""Access to and usage of data, even open-access data will have a licence associated with its usage, this licence will ensure (at a minimum) that the University, Academic Creator and Funder are attributed to in any further reuse of the data.""","""Research data management (including costs) should be considered at the earliest practical stage of the project and reviewed regularly to ensure that practice remains in-line with expected standards.""",None,http://www.ncl.ac.uk/res/assets/documents/DraftResearchDataManagementPolicyPrinciplesandCodeofGoodPractice.pdf
8260168,The University of Glasgow,Good Management of Research Data Policy,Section 5,"""Research data are quantitative information or qualitative statements collected by researchers in the course of their work by experimentation, observation, interview or other methods. Data may be raw or primary (e.g. direct from measurement or collection) or derived from primary data for subsequent analysis or interpretation (e.g. cleaned up or as an extract from a larger data set). The purpose of open research data is to provide the information necessary to support or validate a research project's observations, findings or outputs. Data may include, for example, statistics, collections of digital images, sound recordings, transcripts of interviews, survey data and fieldwork observations with appropriate annotations""","""School and College Level Support
Research administrators and support staff within Schools and Colleges are often the first point of contact for researchers. The University of Glasgow recognises that these members of staff play an integral role in providing discipline-specific research data management support. The University is committed to building staff capacity to support researchers' data management needs.
The University of Glasgow will provide _ and where necessary develop _ School and College level support and services to:
� Disseminate the Good Management of Research Data Policy and details of relevant support services.
� Collaborate with researchers to assess technical infrastructure needed to conduct research and to facilitate sound research data management (in conjunction with University Services).
� Where appropriate, provide discipline-specific data management training, support and advice, particularly on aspects such as data ownership and ethics.
� Provide local guidance and support to assist researchers in developing and implementing data management plans as part of their research activity.

University Services
Good data management depends upon having the appropriate policies, technical infrastructure and support in place. The University of Glasgow is committed to supporting its researchers to meet the objectives outlined above by providing an environment that recognises and supports research excellence.
The University of Glasgow will provide _ and where necessary develop _ central infrastructure and services to:
� Assess and, where feasible, improve support and technical infrastructure in collaboration with researchers, Schools, and Colleges to ensure sound research data management, access and re-use.
� Provide a dedicated institutional research data repository with appropriate security and backup, in line with researchers� and funders� requirements.
� Provide mechanisms to register research data assets centrally and make metadata openly available to facilitate access.
� Enable links to be made between awards, publications and underlying research data via the assignment of persistent object identifiers.
� Support the production of metadata (descriptive information) for research data sets and the logging of research data assets into the institutional data registry.
� Provide training and support for researchers on good practice in research data management.
� Monitor the development of data management standards in the field and adopt best practice as it emerges.""
","""Produce a data management plan for every research project that will generate a dataset.""","""This research data policy is for all staff, including technical and other support staff and persons with honorary positions and students carrying out or supporting research at, or on behalf of, the University.""","""Clearly state who owns the data that are being generated through the research activity. Where this is not clear, researchers will work with IPR specialists in Research Strategy and Innovation, the Library and College support teams to verify data ownership as early as possible in the research data lifecycle.""","""Familiarise themselves with relevant funder data policies and expectations and endeavour to comply with these policies.""","""Work with Research Administrators to identify key research data outputs that must be retained to enable validation (and potentially reuse).""q",None,"""Ensure that sensitive data is properly managed""","""Deposit data in a reputable repository for long term preservation and sharing (if applicable)."" _Data which are retained elsewhere, for example in a disciplinary data service, should also be recorded with the University data registry to facilitate discovery of the dataset via the University web pages and bulk-uploading of research outputs to reporting systems.""","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.""",None,None,http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_435489_en.pdf
8260177,Aberystwyth University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide training, support, advice and where appropriate guidelines and templates for the research data management and research data management plans.�
""The University will advise on and provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.�
","""All new research proposals must include research data management plans that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.�",None,"""Subject to third party interests, research data which supports a scholarly work produced by a member of University staff, shall be owned by the University and retained for an appropriate period of time in accordance with point 7. This period may extend beyond the period of employment of the staff member with the University.�
""Subject to third party interests, research data which supports a scholarly work produced by a student of the University, will remain the intellectual property of the student and be retained for an appropriate period of time in accordance with point 7�
","""Retained in a manner that is compliant with legal obligations and, where applicable, the requirements of funding bodies and project-specific protocols approved by the University�s Research Ethics Panel�",None,"""Research data and any associated records should be retained for as long as they are of continuing value to the researcher and the wider research community, and as long as specified by research funder, patent law, legislative and other regulatory requirements. The minimum retention period for research data and records is three (3) years after publication or public release of the work of the research. In many instances, researchers will resolve to retain research data and records for a longer period than the minimum requirement.�","""The legitimate interests of human participants of research data must be protected.�","""Research data will be offered for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or subject-specific repository, or a University repository.�","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,None,https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/researchoffice/rdm/RDM-Policy-v16.06.10-(EN).pdf
8260107,Edinburgh Napier University,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""This policy convers al data, information and records created, received and maintained in the course of research activities, in any format whether physical and electronic, including, but not limited to, instrument measurements, experimental observations, still images, video and audio, text documents, spreadsheets, databases, quantitative data (e.g. survey data), survey results & interview transcripts, simulation data, models & software, slides, artefacts, specimens, samples, questionnaires, sketches, diaries, lab notebooks, social media data, etc.�","""The University will provide guidelines, advice and training on research data management, including data management plans, costing of research data management into research proposals, storage and data protection, creation of descriptive metadata, intellectual property and Freedom of Information requests for all researchers, all of which will be made available on the University Research Data Management website.�","""A Research Data Management plan (DMP) must be submitted as part of the project proposal for ALL research projects. The DMP must adhere to the requirements of the University using templates and guidance provided by the University, whether or not required by external funding bodies. Where specifically required by funding bodies, the Research Data Management Plan must meet the requirements of both the University and funding bodies.�","""This policy applies to all researchers and support staff employed to conduct research under the auspices of the University and to all research data regardless of how it is funded. It includes research undertaken by research postgraduate students.�","""Intellectual property, copyright and/or rights to re-use/share the data remain with the University unless otherwise dictated by the funding body and agreed by the University.�","""Researchers must comply with funder data management requirements and are responsible for making themselves familiar with and adhering to legislation, contractual obligations and funder policies governing their research data.�","""Research data must be retained after project completion if they substantiate research findings, are of potential long-term value or support a patent�","""Ensure data is stored for a period at least as long as that required by any funder or sponsor of the research. Research data must be retained after project completion if they substantiate research findings, are of potential long-term value or support a patent for at least 10 years.�","""Ensure research data that have been selected for retention are made openly available with as few restrictions as possible, unless this would breach legislative, regulatory, contractual, ethical or other obligations, or where the cost of doing so would be prohibitive. Wherever possible, potential restrictions on data should be described in the project�s data management plan.�","""Register all research data that are retained with the University Research Management System, whether they are hosted by the University or maintained elsewhere, even if access to the data is restricted.","""Ensure research data that have been selected for retention are made openly available with as few restrictions as possible, unless this would breach legislative, regulatory, contractual, ethical or other obligations, or where the cost of doing so would be prohibitive. Wherever possible, potential restrictions on data should be described in the project�s data management plan.
Ensure exclusive rights to re-use or publish research data are not handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use unless this is a condition of funding.�
","""Seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data from the research funder where possible.�",None,http://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/research-innovation-office/Documents/Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy.pdf
8260132,"Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine",Research Data Management Policy,"Research Data:
Data that are collected, observed, generated, created or obtained from commercial, government or other sources, for subsequent analysis and synthesis to produce original research results. For the purposes of this policy, this is limited to digital data.
2.2 Shareable Research Data:
The subset of Research Data that must be preserved for long-term storage and shared.
2.3 Data Management Plan (DMP):
Plans typically state what data will be created and how, and outline the plans for protecting against loss, sharing and preservation, noting what is appropriate given the nature of the data and any restrictions that may need to be applied. More details are available on the College RDM webpages1.
2.4 Data Repository:
A place where data may be stored and made available. This includes but is not limited to a College Repository, a discipline specific repository, a funder repository or a commercial system.
2.5 Funder:
An organisation that provides a financial contribution to support a research project.
2.6 Principal Investigator (PI):
The person ultimately responsible for the research project; as such the PI takes responsibility for the intellectual leadership of the research project and the overall scientific and financial management of the research.
2.7 Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
A reference that enables permanent identification and location of digital objects, such as datasets and journal articles. This means a reference to a dataset elsewhere (e.g. in the journal article it supports or in the College's catalogue) is not going to break or become outdated as a web address might do.
","""Data that are collected, observed, generated, created or obtained from commercial, government or other sources, for subsequent analysis and synthesis to produce original research results. For the purposes of this policy, this is limited to digital data.�",Yes,"""Principal Investigators will provide a data management plan (DMP) for all research grant and contract proposals from the date mandated by the funder where applicable, and in any case by 1st January 2016. This should be in the DMP format provided by the funder if one has been defined, and otherwise the College standard format2 should be used.�","""The aims in this document apply to all data generated through research undertaken by Imperial College staff and students solely or in collaboration with others.�",None,"""Management of data generated from a research grant or contract must also comply with the policies of the relevant grant funders. Where these conflict with the College policy, the policies of the funders take precedence unless specified.�","""The minimum requirement is to share all relevant data to support and underpin published findings including e-theses. Any funder requirements must also be met.�","""Principal Investigators will ensure that shareable research data are made publicly available for 10 years after publication or for the minimum period required by the funder if longer than 10 years.�","""the PI should bear in mind potential ethical considerations in making the decision to share their data.�","""Principal Investigators must deposit their shareable research data in a publicly-available repository of their choosing no later than the time of publication of the findings�","""the PI is entitled to select the licence under which they publish their data provided the chosen licence permits sharing and re-use in accordance with the appropriate funder�s terms and conditions (if any exist) and this policy.�",None,"""Regular review of these aims is required to ensure they evolve to support College needs. The document will be reviewed at least biannually.�",http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-and-innovation/research-office/public/Imperial-College-RDM-Policy-%5Bpdf%5D.pdf
8260152,Loughborough University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""University�s responsibilities
� The University will provide access to training, support, advice and, where appropriate, guidelines and templates for research data management and research data management plans.
� The University will provide access to mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, valuation, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.�","""New research proposals [from date of adoption] should include research data management plans or protocols in line with funders� policies. In other instances, research data management plans are encouraged. All plans should include responsibilities for data collection, documentation and metadata, ethical and legal compliance, storage and backup, selection of data of long-term value, preservation and data sharing.�",None,None,"""Where any research is subject to any associated contractual arrangements and/or grant conditions that conflict with this policy, the provisions of such contractual arrangements and/or grant conditions will take precedence.�","""Research data that may be of future historical interest, including data that substantiate research findings, should normally be offered and assessed for deposit and retention�",None,"""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.�","""should normally be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate data service or domain repository, or a University repository.�","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,None,http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/research/offcampus/docs/ResearchDataManagementPolicy-Draft.pdf
8260180,Swansea University,"Swansea University Policy for Research Data Management
",None,None,"�The university will support PI�s through training and providing advice and guidance.� ""�Technical responsibility for providing the infrastructure necessary to ensure the long-term retention of data will lie with Swansea University IT Services. Other aspects of data cataloguing, curation and access will lie with Swansea University Libraries.�","�It is good practice to define a data management plan for all research projects, and these are now expected by many funders at the bid stage.�",�This policy applies to all members of the University and all data created during research or similar activities that support research outputs. �,�Research data is owned by Swansea University and/or project funders in line with the Policy on Intellectual Property�,None,None,None,"�In addition, data privacy and data protection can be managed appropriately, but each case may require evaluation.�",None,�A principle of the new research environment is that publicly funded research should be publicly available - this includes to other research groups and to the public and commercial users. The rights of the university and researchers to exploit this data academically and commercially can be preserved while meeting these demands.�,"�Costs of research data curation and storage should for large datasets be considered during the bid writing stage and, where permitted, be included within bids.�",None,https://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Swansea%20University%20Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy%20(DRAFT)%20v0.91.pdf
8260071,The Nottingham Trent University,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""Research Data� means information in digital, computer-readable format or paper-based that:
is contained or presented in various ways including notes, facts, figures, tables, images (still and moving), audio or visual recordings; and
is collected, generated or obtained during the course of or as a result of undertaking research (which includes but is not limited to conducting field or laboratory experiments, conducting trials, surveys, interviews, focus groups or analysis of data); and
is subsequently used by the Researcher as a basis for making calculations or drawing conclusions to develop, support or revise theories, practices and findings.�
","""NTU will provide training, support, advice and where appropriate guidelines and templates for research data management and research data management plans.
3.4.1 NTU will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit, retention and access of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects. This includes tools to ensure the stored Research Data is discoverable and accessible. Once a project has closed, the Research Data should be offered and assessed for preservation in NTU supported repository.
3.4.2 On project completion, the Principal Investigator is responsible for data transformation or format conversion required to archive and access the Research Data.
3.4.3 On project completion, the Principal Investigator should ensure all relevant Research Data is made available in the location specified in the data management plan.�
","""All new research proposals, from 30 June 2014, must include research data management plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, access, sharing and publication.�",None,None,None,"""Research Data of future historical interest, and all Research Data that represent records of NTU, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or an NTU repository.�",None,"""The privacy and other legitimate interests of the subjects of Research Data must be protected.�","""Any Research Data which is to be retained elsewhere, for example in an international data service or domain repository should be registered with NTU. The registration must include the retention and access policy of the relevant data service to help determine compliance with this Policy.�","""Research data management plans must ensure that research Data are available for access and re-use where appropriate and under appropriate safeguards.�",None,"""This policy will be reviewed annually by the University Research Committee�",https://www4.ntu.ac.uk/research/document_uploads/172429.pdf
8260049,The University of Bolton,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide training, support, advice and where appropriate guidelines and templates for the research data management and research data management plans.�
""The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.�
","""All research proposals must include research data management plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.�",None,None,None,"""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, in addition to the University repository.�",None,"""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.�","""Any data which is retained elsewhere, for example in an international data service or domain repository should be registered with the University.�
""All research data must be deposited in the University�s own respository (located at: http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/).�
","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of the funding agency.�",None,None,http://www.bolton.ac.uk/Research/Staff-Students-Examiners/ResearchDegreesAndStudents/Documents/PDF/RDM-Policy-v2.pdf
8260114,The University of Cambridge,Research Data Management Policy Framework,Data,�materials to validate published research findings�,"�Disseminating information amongst its academics about the requirements under this policy framework and under policies of the University�s funders in relation to research data.
Developing infrastructure and training to promote best practice in data management amongst its academics, to acknowledge its obligations and achieve compliance with this policy framework and with its funders� data policies.
Managing a dedicated website providing guidance for the University�s academics in good data management practice.
Maintaining an institutional register of supporting data for publicly funded published research in line with funders� requirements.�",�Are encouraged to do the following at the design stage of a research project:,�University staff and students are responsible for managing and curating data�,"�University Staff and Students: Retain intellectual property rights where they arise or the right to apply for such rights arise from the results of activities undertaken by University staff in the course of their employment by the University and by students in the course of their study at the University in accordance with Chapter XIII of the University�s Statutes and Ordinances on Finance and Property, subsection Intellectual Property Rights�","�The University is committed to achieving compliance with the data policies of its external research sponsors, publishers and governmental agencies, and requires its staff and students to abide by terms and conditions agreed with third parties.�",�Ought to make their research data underpinning published research findings as widely and openly available as possible�,"�Should ensure that research data records are retained in appropriate repositories (discipline-based or institutional) for as long as the data seems to be valuable to the data creator or to others, or for as long as is required by the funder or by other regulatory requirements�","�Ensure that legal, ethical and commercial constraints on release of research data are considered at the initiation of the research process and throughout both the research and data life cycles, which shall be described in the data management plan.�
�The University recognises that there is a balance between openness and duties under professional codes and legal obligations.�
�Are responsible for providing access to research data requested by third parties as freely and timely as possible, unless access to the data is restricted by a legal obligation (e.g. non-disclosure agreement), intellectual property protection, ethical approval requirements (e.g. destruction of data from human participants), ethical or security reasons, or other legitimate reasons. Such reasons shall be stated in the metadata description, or in the research article (if the data directly supports a research article).�","�Ought to make their research data underpinning published research findings as widely and openly available as possible, ideally by depositing research data in appropriate repositories (discipline-based or institutional).�","�Are responsible for providing access to research data requested by third parties as freely and timely as possible, unless access to the data is restricted by a legal obligation (e.g. non-disclosure agreement), intellectual property protection, ethical approval requirements (e.g. destruction of data from human participants), ethical or security reasons, or other legitimate reasons. Such reasons shall be stated in the metadata description, or in the research article (if the data directly supports a research article).�",�Allocate appropriate resources (time and financial resources) for data management in their grant proposal.�,�This policy framework will be regularly reviewed by the Open Access Project Board and may therefore be subject to change.�,http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/university-policy
8260073,The University of Plymouth,Research Data Management Policy,Research data,"""Research data is defined as any material created or collected necessary to generate, support and validate original research results, observations, findings or outputs, irrespective of the format or the media in which they may exist.�","""The University is responsible for:
i. Providing access to mechanisms and services for the storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets that allow researchers to meet their requirements under this policy and those of the funders of their research. This support includes both current and future access, during and after completion of research projects;
ii. Providing researchers with access to training, support and advice in research data management;
iii. Providing the necessary resources to those operational units charged with the provision of these services, facilities and training.�
","""The inclusion of research data management plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication for all new research proposals;�","""The policy applies to all research conducted at the University, regardless of funding source.� ""Researchers are defined as members of the University including staff and research students, and those who are not members of the University but who are conducting research on University premises or using University facilities.�",None,"""Where research is supported by a contract with or a grant to the University that includes specific provisions regarding ownership, retention of and access to data, the provisions of that agreement will take precedence.�","""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention�","""Research data should be retained for as long as they are of continuing value to the researcher and the wider research community, and as long as specified by research funder, patent law, legislative and other regulatory requirements. The minimum retention period for research data is three (3) years after publication or public release of the work of the research. In many instances, researchers will resolve to retain research data for a longer period than the minimum requirement.�","""Able to be made available to others in line with appropriate ethical, data sharing and open access principles.�","""deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or a University repository.�","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,"""The University�s Research Information Management Systems (RIMS) Committee, which reports to the Plymouth University Research and Innovation Committee, is responsible for guiding the development and updating of this policy.�",http://plymouth.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=9829705
8260074,The University of Portsmouth,Research Data Management Policy,"DMP, Data Steward, Open Access, Regulatory Enviroment, research, research data","��Research Data� are information created or collected in pursuit of research activities, which may be in digital or physical formats. All subject areas and disciplines have research data. This includes all data that has been collated and transformed (e.g. placed in databases for analysis), and in general all data upon which the process of research has actively impinged. This includes all definitive records of information collected from and about living human subjects, all experimental and survey results data, all records of relevant ephemeral events (performances, exhibits, etc). It excludes research notes (except when these are the primary location of types of data de ned above), transcriptions of information that remains accessible elsewhere in a digital format, and in general any records of information that would be accessible to a third party by following information provided in footnotes or references to the published research.�",None,"Prepare a Data Management Plan, in accordance with guidance provided by the University of Cambridge and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). If funders require a Data Management Plan, such plan needs to be prepared according to funders� requirements.�",This Policy applies to all University of Portsmouth research.,None,The Data Steward is responsible for ensuring that the research adheres to all applicable requirements and conditions imposed by the Regulatory Environment,None,"�Unless the applicable Regulatory Environment specifies otherwise, research data must be retained for ten years from whichever is the latest of:�","�The �Regulatory Environment� includes all applicable legislation, contractual or funder obligations, and ethics and other policy requirements. Examples of items to be considered within the regulatory environment include _ but are not limited to _ the following:
� Legislative: Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act.�","�When making research data open access, the Data Steward must ensure the research data (e.g. files) are stored in either an established subject specific repository, or in the University�s own research data repository.�","�When making research data open access, the Data Steward must ensure that research data are assigned a license that enables such data to be reused and shared by others under as permissible terms as the Regulatory Environment will allow.�","�Costs: Where possible, the Data Steward must seek to recover the direct costs of managing research data from an external research funder.�",Review March 2018,http://policies.docstore.port.ac.uk/policy-167.pdf
8260174,The University of Stirling,Research Data Management Policy,Data,"�Research data is defined as evidence on which research conclusions are based. This includes but is not limited to results of experiments/simulations, statistics and measurements, models and software, observations, survey results, interview transcripts and recording, images, textual source materials and annotations, physical artefacts and samples.�","�The University will make all relevant staff and research students aware of the expectations of research funders, and will provide training, support, advice, guidelines for effective data management.�
�The University will provide appropriate support and guidance to develop robust research data management plans which apply appropriate safeguards.�
�The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets (including their curation) in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.�
","�New research proposals will include research data management plans/protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing/access and publication. It is the responsibility of the PI to ensure that a data management plan is produced.�",�This policy applies to all research data produced at the University. It applies equally to research staff and research students.�,None,�All research data will be managed in accordance with funder requirements.�,"�Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention�",None,�The legitimate interests and personal data of the subjects of research data will be protected. Data shared or deposited in any repository will not contain any personal un- anonymised information.�,"�Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository (which meets relevant requirements), or a future University repository. There is no requirement for data to be stored centrally or at the University as long as it is stored in a reasonable manner that facilitates sharing.� �A record of the research data produced at the University will be recorded within the University�s Research Management System, with metadata records available to external viewers. The record will include information about when and how the data was produced, how it can be accessed and any other relevant information. Where data is not made publically available for valid reason, this will also be stated on the Research Management System.�","�Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data will not be granted to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,�The Research Committee will be responsible for reviewing this policy on an annual basis. The policy will be updated appropriately as a result of annual monitoring.�,https://www.stir.ac.uk/media/services/is/Stirling%20RDM%20policy%20v2.8.pdf
8260162,The University of Sussex,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The University will provide training, support, advice and, where appropriate, guidelines and templates for research data management and the required plans. The University will also provide, to the best standard that resources allow, mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.�","""All new substantive research proposals that include the collection and/or analysis of data must include research data management plans1 explicitly addressing data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, storage, retention, and transportation, sharing and publication.�","""it normally excludes activity described as research where the primary or sole aim is for an individual or group to be trained in research skills or methodologies or in general academic scholarship, and as such is not expected, for example, to apply to the majority of the research undertaken by undergraduates�",None,"""Researchers should also comply with any applicable funder�s requirements for the deposit of data.�","""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention�","""The timescale for retaining data collected should reflect the anticipated value of those data in the future. It is recommended that when ethical review is sought for data collection the applicant states how the data may be used in the future, the value of retaining these data, and how appropriate storage, management and access will be organised in the future.�","""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected at all times.�","""At the conclusion of a research project, any data retained outside University-managed infrastructure (for example, as a result of collaborative projects) must have any meta-data recorded in an appropriate repository/index.�","""Ownership or exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be granted to commercial publishers, agents or others without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�","""Wherever possible and particularly in the case of research projects requiring greater storage capacity than available through the University�s normal provision, PIs must seek to secure funding to cover the costs of providing the required storage capacity from the project funder.�",None,https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=research-data-management-policy.pdf&site=19
8260021,The University of Winchester,Research Data and Records Management Policy,"""Research is defined as per the Frascati manual, i.e. creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.�","""Research data and records are defined as the recorded information (regardless of the form or the media in which they may exist) necessary to support or validate a research project�s observations, findings or outputs.�","""The University is responsible for:
Providing access to services and facilities for the storage, backup, deposit and retention of research data and records that allow researchers to meet their requirements under this policy and those of the funders of their research;
Providing researchers with access to training, support and advice in research data and records management;
Providing the necessary resources to those operational units charged with the provision of these services, facilities and training.�
","""Developing and documenting clear procedures for the collection, storage, use, re-use, access and retention or destruction of the research data and records associated with their research. This shall include, where appropriate, defining protocols and responsibilities in a joint or multi-institution collaborative research project. This information should be incorporated, where appropriate, in a research data management plan;�","""Researchers are defined as members of the University including staff and doctoral students, and those who are not members of the University but who are conducting research on University premises or using University facilities.�",None,"""Where research is supported by a contract with, or a grant to, the University that includes specific provisions regarding ownership, retention of, and access to data, the provisions of that agreement will take precedence.�",None,"""Research data and records should be retained for as long as they are of continuing value to the researcher and the wider research community, and as long as specified by the research funder, patent law, legislation and other regulatory requirements. The minimum retention period for research data and records is three (3) years after publication or public release of the work of the research. In many instances, researchers will resolve to retain research data and records for a longer period than the minimum requirement.�","""Able to be made available to others in line with appropriate ethical, data sharing and open access principles.","""Planning for the on-going custodianship (at the University or using third-party services) of their data after the completion of the research or, in the event of their departure or retirement from the University, reaching agreement with the Head of Department/Dean of Faculty (or his/her nominee) as to where such data will be located and how this will be stored;�",None,None,"""The Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange is responsible for guiding the development and updating of this policy.�",http://www.winchester.ac.uk/Freedomofinformation/Publicdocuments/PublicDocuments/Research%20Data%20and%20Records%20Management%20Policy.pdf
8260151,University of London (Institutes and activities),School Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""The School with the help of the University will provide training, support, advice and where appropriate guidelines and templates for the research data management and research data management plans.
The School will meet its obligations in the provision of its services to support research data management.�","""All new research proposals [from date of adoption] (as well as research projects that started in 12-13 Academic year) must comply with the funders� requirements on research data management.�",None,None,"""All new research proposals [from date of adoption] (as well as research projects that started in 12-13 Academic year) must comply with the funders� requirements on research data management.�",None,Noe,"""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.�","""Any data which is retained elsewhere, for example in an international data service or domain repository should be registered with the School.�",None,None,None,http://www.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/about-us/School%20Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy.pdf
8260178,Bangor University,University Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""Providing in-project access to services and facilities for the storage and backup of research data and records that allow researchers to meet their requirements under this policy and those of the funders of their research.
It is envisaged that in-project storage will cease 6 months after the end of a project, unless a valid request is made to IT Services to extend that time limit.
Providing the facilities for post-project deposit and retention of research data when not deposited in a national or international data service or domain repository.
Providing researchers with access to training, support and advice in research data and records management.
Providing a set of chosen metadata guidelines for the deposit of information relating to Research Data deposit.�
","""Creating a research data management plan at the beginning of every project that explicitly addresses data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.�",None,"""Clearly stating who owns the data that is being generated through the research activity. Where this is not clear, researchers will work with IPR specialist in Research & Enterprise, the Library and College support teams to verify data ownership as early as possible in the research data lifecycle.�","""as long as specified by research funder�","""For the purposes of this policy data refers to any material (digital or physical) which is used to underpin�","""Ensuring that research data and records are retained for as long as they are of continuing value to the researcher and the wider research community, and as long as specified by research funder, patent law, legislative and other regulatory requirements. The minimum institutional retention period for research data and records is five (5) years after publication or public release of the work of the research, unless required by the funder to retain for longer.�","""Ensuring that sensitive data is properly managed.�","""Ensuring research data will be offered, assessed and appraised for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or the University�s digital repository.�","""Ensuring that exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data are not handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,None,https://www.bangor.ac.uk/library/documents/RDM/BU%20Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy%20September2015.pdf
8260089,Cardiff Metropolitan University,Research Data Management Policy,Yes,"""For the purposes of this policy, the term ""research data� is clarified as information gathered through the pursuit of research activity. Such information may be in a variety of forms including quantitative data, interview recordings or transcripts, video or audio recordings.�",None,None,None,None,"""Researchers at Cardiff Met are therefore expected to be familiar with and adhere to the Common Principles on Data Policy published by Research Councils UK.�","""Data related to publications must be available for discussion with other researchers.�","""Data must be held for sufficient time to allow reference. For data that are published this may be for as long as interest and discussion persists following publication. Data with acknowledged long-term value should be preserved and remain accessible and usable for future research. Conversely, data which has not attracted any interest for more than ten years is not expected to be retained.�
""It is recommended that the minimum period for retention is at least five years from the date of publication.�",None,"""Whenever possible, original data must be retained centrally in the School in which they were generated.�","""Cardiff Metropolitan University acknowledges and endorses the research councils� statement that publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest, which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner that does not harm intellectual property.�",None,None,https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/research/Documents/Research%20Data%20Storage%20Policy.pdf
8260068,De Montfort University,Research Data Management Policy,Partial,"""records, files or other evidence, whether in print, digital, physical or other formats, that comprise a research project�s observations, findings or outputs, including primary materials and analysed data collected from a third party�","""In each instance, the University will make best endeavours to support the researcher in meeting the relevant requirement, through advice, training and the provision of infrastructure for data management�","""Where there is no external funder, or the funder�s requirements are unclear, we encourage researchers to prepare a data management plan, in order to organise their thoughts around data management.�","""DMU academic staff, research staff and postgraduate research students; external consultants and contractors conducting research at or on behalf of the University; and visitors that undertake research at or on behalf of DMU (collectively �researchers�).�","""All research data created by researchers working at, or on behalf of, DMU are the property of the University, unless subject to a grant, contract or other legally binding agreement signed by the University that stipulates that these data belong to a third party. For the avoidance of doubt, where legislative requirements apply, they will take precedent over this.�","""The University has duties and responsibilities to external funders that require it to collect, curate, analyse and disseminate research data generated using grant funding provided for this purpose.�",None,"""Where no such period is specified, the University requires that its researchers retain research data and records for a minimum of 5 years following publication or other release of the research.�","""it should also permit the data to be made openly available with minimal restrictions on use, provided that open access will not constitute a breach of the University�s contractual, ethical, regulatory or legislative obligations to third parties.�","""The University requires that its researchers will retain selected research data- sets and, where stipulated by a funding body, offer them for deposit and preservation within an appropriate national or international repository, data service or subject-based repository, or a repository at DMU.�","""Where a funding body, publisher or their agent requests exclusive rights to publish or re-use University research data without any assurance that it will be made openly available upon publication, the University�s default position will be to refuse such a request, unless required to grant such rights as part of the terms and conditions of grant, or under a legal obligation.�",None,"""The University Research and Innovation Committee is responsible for monitoring the implementation of this guidance, and for updating it to reflect national and international developments in RDM best practice. A review of the guidance will take place in May 2017. Thereafter it will be subject to periodic review, at least biennially.�",https://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/research-documents/research-support/dmu-guidelines-on-rdm-march-2016.pdf
8260017,Falmouth University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""Falmouth University is responsible for providing users with training, support and advice on the use of FURR and the guidance on open access and research data management. In addition, the University must provide a backed-up storage service for completed digital research data and for open access research data�","""Any research proposals to be included in FURR must include data management plans that identify the capture of the following elements: management, integrity, confidentiality, security, selection, preservation and disposal, commercialisation, costs, sharing and publication of research data, and the production of descriptive metadata to aid discovery and reuse. Each element to be captured when relevant�","""This policy is has been created to support researchers in complying with any funding body requirements on open access to research data.�",None,"""It is important that researchers always comply with any funder policies concerning open access publishing and research data management�","""Published research must include a statement describing how and under what terms any supporting research information may be accessed�",None,"""""Valid reasons for non-deposit will include commercial, social sensibility and confidentiality issues�","""Any research data that has been identified for retention must be registered with the FURR, even if the information is retained in a national or international data service or domain repository - also if the data is not suitable for publishing on open access�","""Any data which has been identified for retention must not be deposited with any organisations that do not commit to the information being accessed and available for reuse, unless it is a condition of funding or it would jeopardise or otherwise impede commercial interests�",None,"""The FURR administrative and operational areas within the University will be responsible for the upkeep and review of this policy. It will be updated regularly and version controlled�",https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/content/5-summarised-open-access-research-research-data-management-policy
8260171,Heriot-Watt University,Summarised Open Access Research and Research Data Management Policy,"Data, metadata","""A reinterpretable representation of information in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing. Examples of data include a sequence of bits, a table of numbers, the characters on a page, the recording of sounds made by a person speaking, or a moon rock specimen.�","""The University will support and enable its researchers to comply with these requirements through the provision of infrastructure, training, advice and assistance.�
""Relevant Professional Services will provide training, guidance and support and will also provide compliance reporting to Funders.�","""Researchers shall create a Data Management Plan in accordance with the guidelines of the Funders.�","""This Policy applies to all research carried out by Heriot-Watt University employees and Post Graduate Researchers.�",None,"""Research Data shall be managed in accordance with the University�s Information Governance and Records Management and Research Publications Policies, the standards laid out by the Funders� core principles and advice supplied by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)�",None,"""Research Data shall be retained, to enable appropriate access and use, for as long as required in accordance with the guidelines laid out by the Funders or otherwise under advice by the appropriate Professional Services�",None,"""Research Data that is deemed to be worthy of permanent preservation shall be transferred to the appropriate repository designated by the relevant Funder, or a University archival repository.�","""the University also recognises that publicly funded research is a public good and should be discoverable and made available to allow re-use.�",None,"""Annually from date of approval�",https://www.hw.ac.uk/documents/research-data-management-policy.pdf
8260061,The University of Huddersfield,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,"""4. The University will provide training, support, advice and where appropriate guidelines and templates for the research data management and research data management plans based on recognised standards. 5. The University will provide mechanisms and services for storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects""",None,None,None,None,"""Research data of future historical interest, and all research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, will be offered and assessed for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or domain repository, or a University repository.�",None,"""The legitimate interests of the subjects of research data must be protected.�","""Any data which is retained elsewhere, for example in an international data service or repository should be registered with the University.�","""Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re-use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,None,https://www.hud.ac.uk/media/universityofhuddersfield/content2013/services/computingandlibraryservices/library/documents/rdmpolicy.pdf
8260173,The University of St Andrews,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,None,"""Principal Investigators should, in the course of formulating their research proposals, develop a management plan for the data to be collected. Such plans should include issues of confidentiality, retention, sharing, publication, and open access, and describe how the collection of data and metadata will be integrated into their everyday research processes so as to make compliance with the data management plan as simple as possible.�",None,None,"""thereby to ensure compliance with the requirements of funding agencies and other stakeholders.�","""The scope of this policy extends to data of potential long-term value generated in the course of research, for example through underpinning publications or other research products�",None,"""The University expects that all data will over time be made publicly available wherever possible consistent with any constraints necessary to meet funding requirements, statutory or ethical responsibilities�","""Data will be deposited into an appropriate long-term archive. Such archives include national or international subject-specific archives, secure repositories for data with extreme confidentiality requirements, or a managed University repository.�","""The University expects that all data will over time be made publicly available wherever possible consistent with any constraints necessary to meet funding requirements, statutory or ethical responsibilities.�",None,None,https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/policy/research/researchdata/
8260145,St George's Hospital Medical School,Research Data Management Policy,Data,"��data� is as any material (digital or physical) that underpins research, independent of format. This can include raw data captured from instruments, observational data, experimental data, documents, spreadsheets, databases, laboratory notebooks, data visualisations, data models, software, images and measurements.�","�The University will offer PIs information and guidance on research data management via its website. Such guidance will encompass any legal, technological, and storage issues relating to managing data. �",�All research proposals for funded research should include a data management plan.�,�All researchers and supervisors (including postgraduate and undergraduate students who participate in research projects at the University) have a personal responsibility for the efficient management of any data they create.�,None,�Research data created by University staff will be managed in compliance with RCUK�s Common Principles on Data Policy and other funder and community standards.�,"�Research data must be retained after the completion of a project if they substantiate research findings, are of potential long-term value, or if there are other legal requirements for data retention.�","�Unless legal or funder requirements specify otherwise, data must be retained for 10 years from the end of the project or the publication date of any research findings based upon them, after which retention will be reviewed.�",None,�Any data generated from research projects should be recorded with the University (e.g. via Data Management Plans)�,"�Research data should not be handed over to commercial or other entities without retaining the rights to make the data openly available, unless this is a condition of funding�",�Researchers are expected to recover any costs relating to the management of research data generated by projects from their funder(s).�,�This policy will be reviewed annually by the University�s Research Strategy Committee and Information Strategy Committee.�,http://www.sgul.ac.uk/images/about/Policies/SGUL_Research_Data_Management_Policy_-_October_2014.doc
8260079,Teesside University,Research Data Management Policy,None,None,None,None,"""Teesside University Staff and research students funded by the UK Research Councils�",None,"""Researchers are responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with the standards expected from funders and/or publishers with respect to their management of research data;�","""All digital research data that has been identified as requiring retention to support published outputs�","""Data must be available for 10 years.�","""Valid reasons for non-deposit include commercial sensitivity or confidentiality issues and any restriction of access must be clearly stated including the reason for the restriction of access.�","""An institutional record will be kept of any data retained and referred to by published outputs, with clear records of the external repository or repositories in which data is held.�","""researchers who publish their work after 1 May 2015 are required to make the data supporting published work accessible to those who request access to that data.�","""When applying for funding, researchers should ensure that adequate resources are included in any bids for funding to cover costs associated with data management, retention, and access�",None,https://www.tees.ac.uk/docs/DocRepo/Research/Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy.pdf
8260117,The University of East Anglia,Research Data Management Policy,"Research Data, Researchers, ","""the data, records, files or other evidence, irrespective of their content or form (e.g. in print, digital, physical or other forms), that comprise a research project�s observations, findings or outcomes, including primary materials and analysed data�","""UEA shall provide advice and support to Researchers in planning and managing their Research Data through the provision of training, guidance, good practice documentation and expert advice.�","""Best practice for the management of Research Data starts at the earliest stage of planning a research project and should cover all stages of the Research Data lifecycle, normally through the creation of a Data Management Plan which should be updated as necessary over the course of the research project.�","""Academic, research and relevant support staff employed by the University, and other individuals carrying out research at, or on behalf of, the University,
Students undertaking research and their supervisors,
Any persons with honorary positions conducting research within, or on behalf of, the University.�
",None,"""All Researchers should comply with any policies, mandates and expectations around Research Data that are imposed by their funders.�",None,"""Research Data should be kept and remain available for access for at least 10 years following any publication.�",None,"""A Researcher may use an appropriate external repository or data centre which will archive and preserve Research Data, eg national, disciplinary or funder archive. Alternatively, if no such repository or data centre is available, Researchers should use a central repository provided by UEA.�","""Publicly funded Research Data are a public good and should be made openly available wherever possible.�",None,"""The University�s Research Data policies and procedures will be reviewed and updated regularly.�",https://portal.uea.ac.uk/documents/6207125/8017832/RDM_Policy+Oct+2015.pdf/4cf40c8f-27f2-46c6-9cd1-e57b840d655b
8260122,The University of Kent,"Policy on the Storage of Research Data
",None,None,"""support for researchers will be provided by Research Services and Information Services�","""� All research proposals must include RDM plans or protocols that explicitly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality, retention, sharing and publication.
� RDM plans must ensure that research data are available for access and re-use where legally, ethically and commercially appropriate, taking note of any relevant safeguards. Data release will be timely, as appropriate to the nature of the research and the discipline.�
","""Those carrying out research at the University are required to adhere to a number of requirements�",None,"""Where any specific funder, journal or publishers requirements exceed the stated requirements of the University, researchers should consult Research Services and Information Services for advice.�",None,None,"""Data should not be deposited or uploaded to any service, or with any organisation, that restricts access unless this is a condition of funding or is required for data confidentiality, or unless the data is also openly available elsewhere.�","""All data referenced by or used as a part of published research should be acknowledged by a descriptive entry in the Kent Academic Repository, linked to any related publications 
Where possible, the data should be uploaded to a recommended third-party repository service, and then linked to from the Kent Academic Repository. A list of available data repositories is provided by DataCite.
Alternatively, and where possible the data itself can be uploaded for public access to the Kent Academic Repository.�
","""Data should not be deposited or uploaded to any service, or with any organisation, that restricts access unless this is a condition of funding or is required for data confidentiality, or unless the data is also openly available elsewhere.�",None,None,http://www.kent.ac.uk/researchservices/policies/Research%20Data%20Management%20Policy%20-%20Feb%202014.docx
8260086,The University of South Wales,Good Practice in Research Data management,Data,"�the term �research data� is clarified as information gathered through the pursuit of research activity. Such information may be in a variety of forms including quantitative data, interview recordings or transcripts, video or audio recordings.�","�The University will work to provide mechanisms where no appropriate subject or publisher repository exists for the storage, backup, registration, deposit and retention of research data assets in support of current and future access, during and after completion of research projects.�
�The University will work to provide training, support, advice and, where appropriate guidelines and templates for the research data management and research data management plans.�","�All new research funding proposals must include research data management/ sharing plans that clearly address data capture, management, integrity, confidentiality and intellectual property, retention, sharing and publication.�",�The following policy on Research Data Management applies to all research active staff and students.�,None,None,"�Research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, should be offered for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or repository where possible.�",None,�Research data management/sharing plans must ensure that research data are available for access and re-use where appropriate and under appropriate safeguards.�,"�Research data that represent records of the University, including data that substantiate research findings, should be offered for deposit and retention in an appropriate national or international data service or repository where possible.�","�Exclusive rights to reuse or publish research data should not be handed over to commercial publishers or agents without retaining the rights to make the data openly available for re- use, unless this is a condition of funding.�",None,None,http://research.southwales.ac.uk/media/files/documents/2015-05-05/USW_data_policy_FINAL.pdf