Research Data Management
Canada’s major funding agencies the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) have released the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy. The policy is not an open data policy, rather the policy supports Canadian research excellence by promoting research data management and data stewardship practices. There are three key components:
- Development of an Institutional Strategy to be publicly available online
- Researchers will need to submit a Data Management Plan (DMP) with their grant proposals
- Grant recipients are to deposit data (including metadata and code) that supports research conclusions in publications into a digital repository