Funding

In recent years, numerous national and international funding programs have presented guidelines for research data management, such as the DFG in its "Guidelines on the Handling of Research Data"* and the "Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice."**

The basic requirement is to make research data, generated or processed with the support of public funds, available to the public free of charge and without restrictions, provided there are no overriding legal restrictions that must be observed.

Data management plans are also increasingly expected by third-party funders. They serve as an instrument for implementing systematized research data management throughout the entire course of a project.

You can find out more about the requirements of the individual funding organisation in the guide "Research Data Management Requirements of Funding Institutions".

Research Data Management Guidelines (selection):

• *Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 2015. “Guidelines on the Handling of Research Data.” https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/grundlagen_dfg_foerderung/forschungsdaten/guidelines_research_data.pdf.
• **Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 2022. ‘Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice. Code of Conduct’. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6472827.
• European Commission (2021). EU Grants AGA – Annotated Model Grant Agreement. EU Funding Programmes 2021-2027 (PDF)
• European Commission (2021). Horizon Europe Programme Guide (PDF)
• European Commission (2022). Information for ERC grantees (20.04.2022, version 4.1.) Open Research Data and Data Management Plans (PDF)
• OpenAIRE (2022). RDM in Horizon Europe Proposals. https://www.openaire.eu/rdm-in-horizon-europe-proposals.

Subject-Specific Recommendations

Numerous subject-specific recommendations and publications on the handling of research data address the cultures, demands, and needs of individual research areas (see DFG subject-specific recommendations on the handling of research data).

Publishers

Natural and life science publishers, in particular, maintain guidelines on the accessibility of publication-relevant data. These deal, for example, with the obligation to disclose data on request or parallel publication. Some publishers and platforms offer the option of co-publishing the data with the publication (“enhanced publication“); data journals are also growing in popularity as potential publication formats.