New Data Management Guide Released
The Practical Data Management: A Legal and Policy Guide is based on recommendations made in Chapter 10 of the OAK Law Project and Legal Framework for e-Research Project joint report, Building the Infrastructure for Data Access and Reuse in Collaborative Research: An Analysis of the Legal Context (2007). The guide considers, in a practical way, how copyright law, contract, privacy, the law of confidentiality and patent law can apply to datasets and databases. It then explains how research projects and organisations can strategically manage their data within this legal environment through the use of data management policies and principles, data management plans and data management toolkits. Model provisions for a data management plan are provided, as is a model data management toolkit for researchers. Finally, Appendix A to the guide is a sample repository deposit licence for research data that is being included in an open access repository or database.
