Legal aspects of RDM

Different laws touched by RDM

Hartmann, Thomas. (2019). Rechtsfragen: Institutioneller Rahmen und Handlungsoptionen für universitäres FDM. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2654306

Open Access (OA) categories

• Gold: Published in an open-access journal that is indexed by the DOAJ.
• Green: Toll-access on the publisher page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.
• Hybrid: Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.
• Bronze: Free to read on the publisher page, but without a clearly identifiable license.
• Closed: All other articles, including those shared only on an Academic Social Network or in Sci-Hub.

Piwowar H et al. (2018), PeerJ https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375

Open Science is more than Open Access

Okafor et al. (2022) https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.855198, Figure 1

Creative commons

Check out: https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

adapted from https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/0/01/6licenses-folded.pdf

Data protection

GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
DS-GVO (german): Datenschutz-Grundverordnung

Use of biological materials

• MTA: material transfer agreement
• Nagoya Protocol: https://www.cbd.int/abs/about/
• DSI: Digital sequence information

FAIR and CARE

https://www.gida-global.org/care

CARE principles

https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2020-043/

Research Data policies

Hiemenz, Bea & Kuberek, Monika (2018) http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-7521

CEPLAS relevant data handling guidelines & policies

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2015): DFG Guidelines on the Handling of Research Data
• Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität zu Köln AM 07/2018: Leitlinie zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten
• Amtliche Bekanntmachung der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Nr. 43/2022: Forschungsdaten-Richtlinie
• Leitlinie zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten im Forschungszentrum Jülich 05/2019
• Senat der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2009): Regeln zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis

The Data Management Plan (DMP)

• Covers the full research data lifecycle
• Frequently updated as your project develops
• Required to different extents by funding agencies (e.g. DFG, Horizon Europe, BMBF, BMEL, ... )

DMP tools

• Data Stewardship Wizard https://ds-wizard.org/
• RDMO https://rdmorganiser.github.io/ (e.g. https://rdmo.hhu.de)
• Dataplan: https://dmpg.nfdi4plants.org

Check out the Elixir RDMkit for more

Contributors

Slides presented here include contributions by

• name: Dominik Brilhaus
  github: https://github.com/brilator
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-3197
• name: Hajira Jabeen
  github: https://github.com/HajiraJabeen
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1476-2121