Dear Mr Edmunds,

Thank you for your email below.

In 2016, the Research Grants Council (RGC) reviewed its open access policy
and agreed to adopt the following measures to further encourage open
access to research outputs of projects funded under the research funding
schemes administered by the RGC starting from the 2016/17 academic year -

(a)        the Principal Investigators (PIs) should be encouraged to
include in their research completion reports the data repositories where
research data of their projects can be accessed and shared; and

(b)        the PIs should be required to include in the project completion
reports the URL links to the university repositories or the publishers'
websites so that the public can have quick and easy access to the
manuscripts or journal articles (though the public may be required to
subscribe at the publishers' websites).

Universities are also encouraged to improve the infrastructural support
for publication and data sharing purposes.
The RGC recognizes the need to encourage local academics to share research
data and would keep its access policy under constant review so as to get
in line with the development of academic research.

University Grants Committee Secretariat

From:        Scott Edmunds <[FOI #259 email]>
To:        FOI requests at University Grants Committee Secretariat
<[University Grants Committee Secretariat request email]>,
Date:        2018/03/19 下午 12:34
Subject:        Freedom of Information request - Data management plan
policy

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Dear University Grants Committee Secretariat,

In light of Science Europe's initiative for the voluntary international
alignment of research data management policy, does the UGC have any policy
regarding data management plans, and any plants to adopt these
international core research data management requirements by the time they
plan to roll out these scheme in 2019?

See:

[1]http://www.scienceeurope.org/policy/poli...
[2]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-0...

Yours faithfully,

Scott Edmunds

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