Standardising and harmonising research data policy in scholarly publishing

Practice paper Practice paper References Research data policies influence researchers willingness to share research data to varying extents (Meadows, 2014; Schmidt, Gemeinholzer, & Treloar, 2016). A growing number of research funders and institutions are introducing policies on research data sharing. These include the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Gates Foundation, the EU Horizon 2020 programme, Wellcome Trust and the seven UK research councils (Hahnel, 2015). Policy requirements vary, with some requiring researchers to prepare data management plans and others, such as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), requiring evidence of public data archiving to be included in published research papers. To support publication of more reproducible research scholarly journals, societies and conferences ...