Data Sharing and Licenses (Creative Commons) Essentials

This informative session focuses on data sharing and usage. As stipulations for data deposit by publishers and funders become more common it is important that data sharing agreements are clearly outlined at the beginning of a project. at the beginning of a project, the data sharing agreement clearly outlines what data is going be shared and how the data will be used. Participants will delve into: data sharing agreements that have been established for institutional repositories (which would inform individual researcher agreements); samples of an agreement template; how data management plans inform and/or part of an agreement; and how related stipulations need to be considered including licenses that researchers, as authors, have entered into through publishing and/or deposit, namely Creative Commons Licensing.

By the end of this session participants will be able to:

- Discuss what a data sharing agreement is and its primary purposes
- Summarize how the data sharing agreements that UM Libraries have established regionally may inform/influence your own research data sharing agreements you may create
- Examine sample data sharing agreements
- Assess how licenses, such as Creative Commons, entered as result of publishing/deposit may influence/inform present and/or future actions of data sharing for your project