5.1 What part of the data can be made openly available or published? Where and when will the data, or its metadata, be made available?
If your data cannot be opened, explain why. The openness of research data promotes its reuse. Research data management planning in the early stages of the research project enables the sharing of data after the project.
Tips for best practices
- Uniarts Helsinki encourages researchers to be open about their data management. If it’s not possible to open research data e.g. due to legal or ethical reasons, the metadata should be made openly available. See e.g. Open science and research at Uniarts Helsinki.
- Publish your data in a data repository. If you can’t open your data, publish a description (i.e. the metadata) of your data.
- Check the disciplinary and funder recommendations for data repositories.
- Publish your data in a data repository or a peer-reviewed data journal.
- Use repositories or publishers which provide persistent identifiers (DOI, URN) e.g. Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) and/or Zenodo
- It is recommended to make all research data, code and software created within a research project available for reuse, e.g., under Creative Commons, GNU, MIT or another relevant license.
- If you are planning to archive material in FSD, you should read the following guide before collecting the material: Informing research participants about archiving (FSD). Please also use the instructions in the Data Management Guidelines for processing the material.
More instructions
Examples
"Dataset(s) themselves, complete with full description of methods, will be published in [A certified, field-specific repository / Zenodo].”
“Sensitive parts of the data cannot be stored and will be disposed of after the project is finished.”
