Data: Find and Share

 New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (effective January 25, 2023)

This policy applies to:

• Competing grant applications that are submitted to NIH for the January 25, 2023 and subsequent receipt dates;
• Proposals for contracts that are submitted to NIH on or after January 25, 2023;
• NIH Intramural Research Projects conducted on or after January 25, 2023; and
• Other funding agreements (e.g., Other Transactions) that are executed on or after January 25, 2023, unless otherwise stipulated by NIH.

Resources for Data Sharing:

• Learn about NIH data sharing policies and how to share and access scientific data at https://sharing.nih.gov  
• NIH Data Sharing FAQ
• Guide to Social Science Data Preparation & Archiving: Best Practice through Data Life Cycle -- Guide recommended by NIH that can apply to other data
• NIH Data Sharing Policies with Names of Repositories for Various Types of Data 

See separate guide for compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy for scientific publications.

Data Sharing Policy for Genomic Data --- Effective January 25, 2015

This Policy applies to:

• Competing grant applications that are submitted to NIH starting with the January 25, 2015 receipt date;
• Proposals for contracts that are submitted to NIH on or after January 25, 2015; and
• NIH intramural research projects generating genomic data on or after January 25, 2015.

Human genome data must be submitted to NIH designated database, whereas non-human genome data may be submitted to any widely-used data repository (see partial list below).

Links to resources, the actual policy and related documents and information:

Widely-used data repositories for NON-human data -- while these were cited in NIH GDS policy, any widely-used data repository is permitted: