Tony Peatfield, Medical Research Council/RCUK

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Open data – MRC and RCUK policies
M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries
20 March 2017
Tony Peatfield
Medical Research Council/RCUK
MRC | Medical Research Council
Definition of ‘Open’
• “Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and
share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that
preserve provenance and openness).” (2006/2014)
• The Open Definition makes precise the meaning of “open”
with respect to knowledge, promoting a robust commons in
which anyone may participate, and interoperability is
maximized.
(http://opendefinition.org)
• The intellectual property rights over open content are retained
by the creator/author but licensed with open terms for anyone
to re-use. In context of scientific research, there is also an
expectation that the original creator is acknowledged.
Open Science
By Andreas E. Neuhold - Own work, CC BY 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33542838
Data sharing – high level principles
Publicly-funded research data are a public
good, produced in the public interest, and
they should be openly available to the
maximum extent possible.
Aim to promote a culture of openness and
sharing to increase “the return on public
investments in scientific research”.
Data sharing landscape – the Data Spectrum
http://theodi.org/data-spectrum
Main policies, principles and guidance
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MRC ‘Good Research Practice’ (2000/2012)
www.mrc.ac.uk/research/policies-and-guidance-for-researchers/goodresearch-practice/
MRC Data sharing policy (2005/2016)
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www.mrc.ac.uk/documents/pdf/mrc-data-sharing-policy/
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RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy (and guidance) (2011/2015)
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www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/
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OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from
Public Funding (2007)
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http://www.oecd.org/science/sci-tech/38500813.pdf
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Concordat on Open Research Data (2016)
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www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/concordatonopenresearchdata-pdf/
The policies are in line with the ‘FAIR’ principles — Findability, Accessibility,
Interoperability and Reusability - developed to provide a guideline for data producers
and publishers to enhance the reusability of scientific data.
MRC data policy principles
The MRC’s overarching policy aim
for data-sharing is to maximise the
life-time value of research data
assets for human health and to do
so in a way that is timely,
responsible, with as few
restrictions as possible, and
consistent with the law, regulations
and recognised good practice.
MRC Good Research Practice:
Principles and Guidance
All research data generated through MRC-funded
research must be managed and curated effectively
throughout its lifecycle, including archiving,
• to ensure integrity, security and quality
• to support new research and research data sharing
• to maximise the benefit and impact of MRC research
funding.
Records should be kept to enable understanding of
what was done, how and why, and which allow the
work to be assessed retrospectively and repeated if
necessary.
MRC Expectations – Data management
 The principles, standards and technical processes for data
management, retention and preservation will be determined by
the area of science
 Processes should be supported by appropriate data standards
addressing confidentiality and information security, monitoring
and quality assurance, data recovery and data management
reviews where suitable.
 MRC-funded research must be retained in an appropriate format
in line with agreed retention periods:
 Basic research: 10 years after the study was completed
 Population health and clinical studies: 20 years after
completion of the study (25 years in some circumstances)
 National importance – permanent preservation
MRC Policy on Data Sharing
• MRC first data management policy issued in 2005. Last reviewed in
2016. Now includes:
• MRC policy on sharing of research data from population and
patient studies (2011)
• MRC Policy on Open Research Data from Clinical Trials and Public
Health Intervention Studies (collated/extended 2016)
• Good Practice Principles for Sharing Individual Participant Data
from Publicly Funded Clinical Trials (2015)
• Requirement for all MRC funded researchers to include a Data
Management Plan in their applications, and for all MRC units/institutes
to include DMP(s) in their QQR, either at unit or programme level
• The MRC Regulatory Support Centre and theMRC Head Office
Knowledge and Management team offer bespoke guidance.
Data Sharing guidance on MRC website
https://www.mrc.ac.uk/research/policies-and-guidance-for-researchers/data-sharing
Funding and infrastructure
• Costs for data management and activities are
- allowable within a grant applications
- covered in part by indirect costs (no double costing!)
- included in MRC Unit (QQR) budgets
• The MRC does not prescribe where or how researchers
should preserve and share data
• The MRC funds a number of data infrastructures, including
the European Bioinformatics Institute, Biobank, several
populations studies, Farr Institute
• New project to explore ways to share clinical trials data
• [Support set-up of Trusted Research Environments (TREs)
for health data (eg through the Farr Institute)]
Compliance monitoring and assurance process
• Data Sharing policy questions are included in the ‘DASIC’
• Data Sharing section in Unit Quinquennial Reviews
• AASG audits (Data sharing and management policy in
2015)
• Recommendation was to identify better ways to
systematically monitor implementation of the policy
• Compliance is not currently systematically measured on an
annual basis, but we hope to analyse ResearchFish data
• Working with JISC and other stakeholders to develop
better ways to cite data, and therefore to track re-use
Some issues for the MRC/medical research
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Consents for sharing participant data
Deductive disclosure of patient identities
More focus on non-human studies?
Repositories for clinical Trials data
Better recognition of researchers who share data
[Public confidence (health data) - Independent patient data
taskforce (Chair: Nicola Perrin, Wellcome)]
Currently seeking views from our research community: to be
discussed by MRC Council in July……
….Questions -1
• Should the MRC be doing more to promote access to research
data following the publication of the Concordat on Open
Research Data?
• In view of the costs involved in curation and archiving, is it
reasonable to aim for all data from MRC-funded research to be
openly accessible?
• Should the main focus of MRC activity remain on data from
cohorts and clinical studies or should we also do more to
promote access to data from animal research and basic
laboratory research?
• Should the MRC be doing more to promote other aspects of
open science (for example, pre-publication of protocols or
registered reports) in addition to our work on open access
publishing?
Questions -2
• Should the MRC have a means of ensuring the quality of studies
using data generated from MRC research or is it sufficient to
leave this to the procedures governing data access and journal
peer-review?
• Should specific measures be developed to track the secondary
use of data from MRC research in order to evaluate better the
impact of MRC funding?
• Should there be general principles governing the equity of
access to the coordinated release of large datasets (such as the
genetic or imaging data generated by UK Biobank), where early
access can provide a significant advantage over scientific
competitors?
RCUK – Policies and guidance
• Common principles on data policy published 2011/2015
• Guide to the interpretation of these common principles,
independent of the specific data policy of the Council(s)
that may be funding a particular project (2015)
• Research Councils each has its own policies and
guidance; eg
• ESRC: suggests deposit of data underlying research
publications in the UK Data Archive (1967?)
• EPSRC: mandates deposit of data underlying research
publications with explicit reference to sanctions (from
May 2015)
• RCUK was involved in, and is signatory to, the Concordat
on Open Research Data (RCUK/HEFCE/UUK/Wellcome)
Some issues for RCUK and nationally
• ? Revise/replace RCUK principles to ‘de-duplicate’ the
Concordat
• ? Develop FAQs for the Concordat
• UKRI? – more centralisation?
• Task Force for open research data (Chair: Pam
Thomas, Warwick) – invited by Jo Johnson
• EU General Data Protection Regulation (takes effect
from May 2018) – issue of re-consenting/research
exemption
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/index_en.htm
https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/uk-data-protection-regulationimplementation-sep16.pdf
Some more detailed policies/guidance
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https://www.mrc.ac.uk/publications/browse/mrc-policy-and-guidance-on-sharingof-research-data-from-population-and-patient-studies/
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MRC Policy on Open Research Data from Clinical Trials and Public Health
Intervention Studies (collated/extended 2016)
https://www.mrc.ac.uk/documents/pdf/mrc-policy-on-open-research-data/
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MRC policy on sharing of research data from population and patient studies
(2011)
Good Practice Principles for Sharing Individual Participant Data from Publicly
Funded Clinical Trials (2015)
https://www.methodologyhubs.mrc.ac.uk/files/7114/3682/3831/Datasharingguida
nce2015.pdf
• RCUK Responses to questions raised at the DCC/RDMF Special Event on
funding for Research Data Management (Aston University, 25th April 2013)
http://blogs.rcuk.ac.uk/files/2013/07/RCUK-Responses-to-DCC-RDMF-FunderQuestions-.pdf
RCUK Research Outputs Network (‘RON’) /contacts
Alex Vincent (RCUK Executive Directorate) (Chair)
Andrew Wright (RCUK ED)
Pam Hicks (RCUK ED)
Ian Broadbridge (AHRC)
Sophia Abbasi (BBSRC)
Rachel Spencer (BBSRC)
Claire Williamson (EPSRC)
Becky Leithall (ESRC)
Geraldine Clement-Stoneham (MRC)
Tony Peatfield (MRC)
Mark Thorley (NERC)
Juan Bicarregui (STFC)
Andrew Le Masurier (STFC)
Questions?

Tony Peatfield, Medical Research Council/RCUK

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