As soon as you have made a selection of data, and they meet the preconditions (see tab 'Select data'), you decide whether you want this data to be:
"As open as it can be, as closed as it should be"
Subsidy providers are increasingly asking (or even demanding) that research data will be made available as freely and sustainably as possible in order to make the research process transparent and verifiable and to promote (re)use.
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Publishing research data is making the (meta)data findable, citable and (re)usable under a license that makes clear what can and cannot be done with the data. Publishing data is often referred to by researchers and in the scientific literature as data sharing.
There are roughly two ways to publish (about) research data:
Data published only as a supplement are less traceable and less FAIR than research data published in a data archive.
The retention period depends on, among other things, the discipline, the developments therein, the costs of storage and accessibility, and the expected (re)use.
The legal retention period for research data is at least 10 years. For verification purposes, the raw research data must also be kept for at least 10 years.
However, the retention period may also be determined by the code of conduct that applies to the research, such as the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO), the Medical Treatment Contracts Act (WGBO), the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. Research data from MREC-reviewed research, for example, must be kept for at least 15 years.
After the legal retention period consideration must be given to whether the research data should be stored for a longer period or can be destroyed.