## Module 5: Data Management Policy ##
This module covers the research lifecycle and a few actionable concepts you can implement to help you better find organize and understand your work.
### Learning Objectives ###
1. Differentiate and adhere to requirements embodied in funder, institutional and publisher policies
2. Explain ownership considerations related to data sharing
3. Describe potential legal issues connected to one’s data (intellectual property, copyright, licensing, data retention)
### Readings and Resources ###
**Required**
Briney, Kristin, Abigail Goben, and Lisa Zilinski. 2015. “Do You Have an Institutional Data Policy? A Review of the Current Landscape of Library Data Services and Institutional Data Policies.” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 3(2): eP1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1232
Carroll, Michael W. 2015. “Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer.” PLoS Biology 13(8): e1002235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002235
Crotty, David. 2016. “What Price Progress: The Costs of an Effective Data Publishing Policy.” ScholarlyKitchen https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/01/13/what-price-progress-the-costs-of-an-effective-data-publishing-policy
Dryad. Joint Data Archiving Policy http://datadryad.org/pages/jdap
SHERPA/RoMEO. Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
**Supplemental**
Borgman, Christine L. 2012. “The conundrum of sharing research data.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(6): 1059. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22634
Shearer K. 2015. “Comprehensive Brief on Research Data Management Policies.” Government of Canada. http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=1E116DB8-1
Tenopir, Carol, et al. 2011. “Data sharing by scientists: practices and perceptions.” PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.00211011
Valen, Dan and Kelly Blanchat. 2015. “Overview of OSTP Responses.” Figshare. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1367165.v7
Retraction Watch. Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process http://retractionwatch.com/
