This wiki tracks changes in federal, state, and institutional policies dealing with research data affecting members of Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA).

ASERL and SURA institution members are encouraged to participate by nominating librarians and Research Office personnel to serve on a Data Coordinating Committee.

The committee may be broken into smaller work-groups to manage the Data Policy Watch Service.  Another workgroup might create a test-bed project to review and advance data management planning for SURA-coordinated research initiatives such as an inter-institutional cooperative for data management.

Discuss the OSTP RFI: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications

Discuss the OSTP RFI: Public Access to Digital Data

Outline of a drafted response to the OSTP RFI on Digital Data. Deadline is January 12th.

The responses to these requests for information are posted. There were 375 responses to scholarly publications and 117 dealing with public access to data. The scholarly publishing responses are here http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/publicaccess and the data responses are here http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/digitaldata.

Please contact Gail McMillan (gailmac@vt.edu) or Nathan Hall (nfhall@vt.edu) to gain password access to the wiki to contribute to the policy resources.