Open Access - EUDAT

"The EUDAT communities wish to use EUDAT services to store and manage restricted data as well as open data. That's why EUDAT must be able to handle this situation, and the mechanism chosen is to produce 'consistent guidelines for restricted data access to be adopted in the EUDAT CDI'.

Moreover, in order to encourage the acceptance of opening access to research data, the Horizon 2020 programme has launched a pilot action, the Open Research Data Pilot. Participating projects must develop a Data Management Plan (DMP) specifying which data will be openly accessible. Projects in certain areas, e.g. Future and Emerging Technologies, and Research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures) are automatically part of the pilot; projects in other areas can also opt in. The Open Research Data Pilot aims to make the research data generated by these projects accessible with as few restrictions as possible, while at the same time protecting sensitive data from inappropriate access."