An Overview of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Management and Sharing Policy

Beginning January 25, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s new Data Management and Sharing Policy will require all researchers seeking NIH funding to describe how they will manage and share their data. This talk will provide an overview of the policy, including DMS policy expectations, the applicability of the policy, how to prepare a Data Management and Sharing Plan, and considerations for sharing data responsibly. The talk will also touch on roles for librarians in helping researchers to not only comply with the policy, but also to make research more reproducible, transparent, and reusable.

More about our speaker:

Lisa Federer is the Acting Director of the National Library of Medicine’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, serving as principal advisor to the NLM Director on strategic directions of NLM, including open science, analysis, evaluation, and reporting on NLM programs and activities. Prior to accepting this position, Lisa served as NLM’s Data Science and Open Science Librarian, and previously served as the Research Data Informationist at the National Institutes of Health Library, where she developed and ran the Library’s Data Services Program. She holds a PhD in information studies from the University of Maryland and an MLIS from the University of California-Los Angeles, as well as graduate certificates in data science and data visualization.