“Data management” and “data management plans” are phrases increasingly heard within academic and scientific communities. More and more science journals are requiring data sharing as a contingency for publication, and in 2013 the White House Office of Science and Technology released a new policy stating:
...the results of unclassified research that are published in peer-reviewed publications directly arising from Federal funding should be stored for long-term preservation and publicly accessible to search, retrieve, and analyze in ways that maximize the impact and accountability of the Federal research investment.
For more information on data management plans and storing data sets, contact our Jefferson Digital Commons librarian:
Kelsey Duinkerken, Special Collections and Digital Services Librarian kelsey.duinkerken@jefferson.edu