eHealthNews.eu - Commission Launches Pilot to Open Up Publicly Funded Research Data

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-07

Summary:

"Valuable information produced by researchers in many EU-funded projects will be shared freely as a result of a Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020. Researchers in projects participating in the pilot are asked to make the underlying data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications and other scientific information available for use by other researchers, innovative industries and citizens. This will lead to better and more efficient science and improved transparency for citizens and society. It will also contribute to economic growth through open innovation. For 2014-2015, topic areas participating in the Open Research Data Pilot will receive funding of around €3 billion. The Commission recognises that research data is as important as publications. It therefore announced in 2012 that it would experiment with open access to research data. The Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020 does for scientific information what the Open Data Strategy1 does for public sector information: it aims to improve and maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by projects for the benefit of society and the economy ... Projects may opt out of the pilot to allow for the protection of intellectual property or personal data; in view of security concerns; or should the main objective of their research be compromised by making data openly accessible.  The Pilot will give the Commission a better understanding of what supporting infrastructure is needed and of the impact of limiting factors such as security, privacy or data protection or other reasons for projects opting out of sharing. It will also contribute insights in how best to create incentives for researchers to manage and share their research data.  The Pilot will be monitored throughout Horizon 2020 with a view to developing future Commission policy and EU research funding programmes.  In addition to the announced Pilot on Open Research Data, Open access to scientific publications is now mandatory for all scientific publications resulting from H2020 funded projects. Articles will be made accessible in an open access repository no later than six months after publication (12 months for articles in social sciences and humanities). Projects must also aim to deposit the research data needed to validate the results presented in the deposited scientific publications, known as 'underlying data.'  The Pilot on research data targets both underlying data, which is needed to reproduce the results presented in scientific publications, and other data as indicated by researchers in Data Management Plans (DMPs), a new element in Horizon 2020. DMPs describe the data management life cycle for all data that will be collected, processed or generated by the research project. All projects that participate in the Pilot will have a DMP, all other projects in H2020 will be invited to develop one on a voluntary basis if it is relevant to their research."

Link:

http://www.ehealthnews.eu/development/3775-commission-launches-pilot-to-open-up-publicly-funded-research-data

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Date tagged:

01/07/2014, 08:54

Date published:

01/07/2014, 10:17