Does this apply to students ?
As far as we currently know this applies to any NRF funded individual
BUT ITS MY DATA
Its still your data but you do need to make a plan to share, store and preserve it.
Does this mean my data is open access if I have NRF funding?
No, it means you need to write a data management plan that the NRF will pass. There are all kinds of variation of access types in sharing data. Write your plan and think about a right solution for your specific data.
What data must be deposited ?
The data supporting the publication will need to be deposited. The common definition is that this data means all data necessary to replicate the results reported in a paper. This often includes software, additional documentation (e.g. codebooks) and detailed methodology. Data must come with basic metadata or it cannot be formally deposited.
Where must the data be deposited?
The NRF requires that data
“Be deposited in an accredited Open Access repository,with the provision of a Digital Object Identifier for future citation and referencing.”
Wits data store is registering as an accredited repository and can provide DOI’s for citation. This data needs to be deposited in the university repository, whether or not the full text of the paper is published or under embargo (i.e. access restricted). However, ethical and legal considerations mean that while the data is deposited, it will have to be licensed for sharing on a case by case basis.
BUT I CANT DEPOSIT IT , MY ETHICS COMMITTEE SAID NO
Ethical issues impose additional management issues such as security or the use of enclaves.Sensitive data can be shared
in a controlled manner which complies with the funder’s requests, as well as ethical requirements.The metadata will be published in the university’s repository and point to human subject data sitting in another more secure location. We also write data access statement and the library can try to make the data anonymous. We always refer all data requests back to a procedure that goes via the ethics committee.
I promised to destroy the data
If you have written a data management plan and it's been approved then the library can advise you on how to certify the destruction of data. However, depositing to secure storage can be an alternative to deleting the data.
If you have NRF funding you have to deposit data
The first step is to create a data management plan( currently the NRF data management plan is in development and is a pilot version however it is active.We can email you a secure link). The data supporting the publication will need to be deposited then the type and kind of data publication need to be decided on. That data will be detailed in a Data Management Plan. If you are doing a larger or ongoing project then you will probably have to make a plan to deposit a set of data rather than versions or subsets.
How to meet your requirements
Wits data store is registering as an accredited repository and can provide DOI’s for citation.This data needs to be deposited in the university repository, whether or not the full text of the paper is published or under embargo (i.e. access restricted). However, ethicals and legal considerations mean that while the data is deposited, it will have to be licensed for sharing on a case by case basis.
Contact the Data Services Librarian to organize SECURE data deposit Ethical issues impose additional management issues such as security or the use of enclaves. Sensitive data can be shared in a controlled manner which complies with the funder’s requests, as well as ethical requirements.
The metadata will be published in the university’s repository. It is possible and may be advisable to publish the data in a specialized repository as well as in the institution’s repository. In most cases, we do not publish the data with the metadata, rather we link the datasets in specialized storage to the metadata. There is no limit as to how many times data can be deposited and in multiple ways.