| Name: | NIH - Genomic Data Sharing Policy |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://gds.nih.gov |
| Country: | United States |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://gds.nih.gov/03policy2.html |
| Effective date from: | 2015-01-25 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
| Exemptions....(text extracted from the policy): | Exceptions to Data Submission Expectations. In cases where data submission to an NIH-designated data repository is not appropriate, that is, the Institutional Certification criteria cannot be met, investigators should provide a justification for any data submission exceptions requested in the funding application or proposal. The funding IC may grant an exception to submitting relevant data to NIH, and the investigator would be expected to develop an alternate plan to share data through other mechanisms. For transparency purposes, when exceptions are granted, studies will still be registered in dbGaP, the reason for the exception will be included in the registration record, and a reference will be provided to an alternative data-sharing plan or resource, if available. More information about requesting exceptions is available on the GDS website. |
| What must be deposited?: | Data |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | VI. Intellectual Property. NIH encourages patenting of technology suitable for subsequent private investment that may lead to the development of products that address public needs without impeding research. However, it is important to note that naturally occurring DNA sequences are not patentable in the United States.34 Therefore, basic sequence data and certain related information (e.g., genotypes, haplotypes, p-values, allele frequencies) are pre-competitive. Such data made available through NIH-designated data repositories, and all conclusions derived directly from them, should remain freely available, without any licensing requirements.
NIH encourages broad use of NIH-funded genomic data that is consistent with a responsible approach to management of intellectual property derived from downstream discoveries, as outlined in the NIH Best Practices for the Licensing of Genomic Inventions70 and Section 8.2.3, Sharing Research Resources, of the NIH Grants Policy Statement.71 NIH discourages the use of patents to prevent the use of or to block access to genomic or genotype-phenotype data developed with NIH support.
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| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository |
| Name of specified archive: | NIH-designated data repositories |
