On 20 January 2021, the OECD Council adopted a revised Council Recommendation on Access to Research Data from Public Funding. The legal instrument, in force since 2006, has been updated to address new technologies and policy developments, and provides policy guidance in seven areas shown in the figure below. In addition, the revision expands the scope to cover not only research data, but also related metadata, as well as bespoke algorithms, workflows, models, and software (including code), which are essential for their interpretation.
Case studies
The analytical report Enhanced Access to Publicly Funded Data for Science, Technology and Innovation summarises the analysis which underpins the text of the revised Recommendation.
It is based on a survey of policy practices in the domain of access to data, two expert workshops and policy case studies:
Belgium: Laureys, E. (2018), “Belgian case study on open access to data: DMP Belgium consortium”
Finland: Haapamaki, J. (2018), “Review of the Finnish ATT initiative”
Korea: Shin, E. (2018), “Report on Enhanced Access to Public Data for STI”
Slovenia: Tramte, P. (2018), “Case study on research data management and openness in Slovenia”
South Africa: Woolfrey, L. (2018), “The DataFirst Research Data Repository”
Spain: FECYT (2019), “Spanish law of science, technology and innovation”
Sweden: Eriksson, M. and M. Nilsson (2018), “OECD case study report RUT”
United Kingdom: Bruce, R. (2018), “UK case study: The concordat on open research data”