ARL Comments on US National Institute of Justice Draft Public Access Plan — Association of Research Libraries

"The US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) requested comments on its “Draft Public Access Plan.” The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to provide comments on the plan below....

Recent ARL research[2] has found the average researcher expenditure for research data management and sharing activities throughout the grant project period was $29,800 or 5.83% of their award amount. This research found that the average yearly institutional expense (researcher expense + service provider expense) for data management and sharing is $2,500,000 with a range from approximately $800,000 to over $6,000,000. Further, our research indicates that Libraries and University IT bear the greatest financial and service burden for data management and sharing (Table 1). While researcher direct costs may be included in grant budgets, overall institutional expenses are not yet well accounted for through institutional direct or indirect cost reimbursement...."