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DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN

  1. Roles and Responsibilities in the Management and Retention of Research Data

The pending University of Connecticut Data Ownership Policy, modeled on the UConn Health Center policy http://policies.uchc.edu/policies/policy_2003_42.pdf states in part that research data are the property of the investigators and – for grants with disclosure requirements – jointly owned with UConn, although data custody and its transfer fall squarely on the PI. At closeout, the project data will be transferred from active workspace to the UConn Libraries’ preservation-oriented digital repository which will meet all federal data management requirements, notably the National Science Foundation’s Public Access Plan [1]. The UConn library repository manages static data, respecting intellectual property and privacy rights, as well as security needs. The storage option most available for the data generated during this project will be the Research Network Attached Storage (RNAS) device, which provides 15GB of secure, global shareable (beyond UConn) storage at no charge to the investigators.

  1. Expected Data

Data is defined here as recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings. Most relevant to this project, formative assessments and results of participant surveys will be collected through the UCLA Center X and will be archived in PDF format. The data will be compiled into a summative evaluation at project completion which will be used to increase the adoption of the methods in the academic community.

  1. Period of Data Retention

The PI will make the data discussed in section 2 available to the public for a minimum of ten years after completion of this award. The UConn library repository stands prepared to retain deposited data in perpetuity with recurring appraisal cycles. Additionally, the UConn library repository will honor embargo and de-accessioning parameters if this becomes applicable.

  1. Data Formats and Dissemination

The investigators will disseminate results to the scientific community as peer reviewed archival publications. Publications will be made available to the public through the UConn library no later than 12 months after initial publication. The UConn library repository is a public access compliant repository in accordance with [1]. The UConn library repository follows community best practices to enable discovery and access. The UConn library repository features a descriptive metadata management tool related to discovery of the research and educational data produced during this project. At the repository-wide level, indexing and discovery tools will be utilized, including external harvesting via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This will enable regular search engine crawling and indexing, with privacy and security issues identified pre-ingest into the repository and managed as required. This meets the discovery, search, and access requirements outlined in [1].

  1. Data Storage and Preservation of Access

The UConn library repository features (i) storage, including replication to comply with the strictest of research data storage models, (ii) permanent, citable links, and (iii) access in perpetuity (or shorter length if de-accessioning is required), with recurring appraisal cycles.

[1] Public Access Plan: Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries: Increasing Access to the Results of Research Funded by the National Science Foundation (United States National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 2015). http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15052