BBSRC - Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

Time Limits

Publications must be deposited at the earliest opportunity and data must be made no later than the release of main findings through publication, or three years as a general guide.
Specific scientific areas have established best practice for release of data as noted in the BBSRC Data Sharing Policy (June 2010 update).
Data should be maintained for 10 years after project completion.

YES. Researchers must submit a ‘Data Sharing Plan’ as part of their proposal. See the BBSRC Data Sharing Policy for detail. Funding can also be requested to fulfil the Data Management requirements of the project.
Applicants may wish to include details of:
- Data areas and data types, Standards and metadata, Relationship to other data available in public repositories; Secondary use of the data, Methods for data sharing, Proprietary data, Timeframes, Format of the final dataset.

Deposit of data in an existing database, repository or other community resource is expected where possible and researchers are encouraged to share data through mechanisms affording the widest availability for generating added value and enabling re-use.
Researchers are encouraged to use existing infrastructure to facilitate data sharing where possible. BBSRC funds or supports a number of such resources. Otherwise, applicants may consider sharing data via other third party mechanisms such as journal websites and / or open access repositories.
UK PubMed Central As a part of Open Access, the Wellcome Trust has with the help of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the NIH, established a manuscript submission system, through which papers accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal can be deposited and made accessible through the NIH life science archive, PubMed Central (PMC). BBSRC is one of the project partners, along with a number of other UK life sciences funders including: MRC, Arthritis Research Campaign, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation, and JISC.

“BBSRC Data Sharing Policy": (June 2010 update)”.