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Data Deposit and Retention: Get readier for requirements from funders and publishers

Are looming requirements for data retention, deposit, and availability getting you down? Or maybe a journal is asking you to deposit your research data and you don’t know where to start? Get readier for requirements with this quick, timely webinar.

Data deposit and data sharing are increasingly recognized as best practices to support open research, reproducibility, research integrity, collaboration, and more. In January 2027, the Tri-Agencies (CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC) are targeted to implement a data deposit and retention requirement for funded projects. Many journals are also asking researchers to share or make data available: BMJ, PLOS, Nature, NEJM, and Frontiers. But what’s the best repository to share it in? How do you meet this requirement if you have sensitive or very large datasets?

This one-hour session will prepare researchers to:

  • Bullet-point their responsibilities under the Tri-Agencies’ impending data deposit, availability, and retention requirements
  • Locate an appropriate repository for their dataset.
  • Find RDM consultations and other resources to help them meet requirements.
  • Outline tools to support documentation and metadata best practices, including READMEs, codebooks, and data dictionaries.

If you’re a researcher, on a research team, a research support staff, or a student with questions about impending requirements, this session is for you. It’s also appropriate to bring anyone up to speed on long-term data management for a publication, grant, or project.

Workshop Preparation

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Facilitator Bio

Danica Evering is a Research Data Management Specialist grounded in curiosity and a deep commitment to ethics. Danica is available to help students, postdocs, faculty, and staff with RDM through the data lifecycle—Data Management Plans, storage and backup, data security, data sharing. With an MA in Media Studies, Danica fosters active interest in RDM across disciplines, with a knack for engaging researchers who might not even realize they have data to manage. Outside of work they sing in a choir, play PC games, maintain an art writing practice, grow a garden, contribute Wikipedia articles, and run. 

Isaac Pratt (he/him) is a research scientist by training and has a PhD in Anatomy & Cell Biology. He leverages nearly a decade of interdisciplinary research experience to help support students, staff, and faculty. His expertise lies in questions surrounding data storage, security, planning, archival, and sharing. Isaac also provides support and curation services for McMaster Dataverse. His other interests include reproducible research methods, open science, and data science.

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