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NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy : Budget: Allowable costs and costing resources
All NIH grant proposals submitted on January 25, 2023 and beyond will be required to include a data management and sharing plan.
Official guidance
- Supplemental Information to the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing: Allowable Costs for Data Management and SharingOutlines that reasonable, allowable costs can be budgeted in three categories: (1) Curating data and developing supporting documentation; (2) local data management considerations; and (3) preserving and sharing data through established repositories.
Resources for cost estimation
- NAP on biomedical data costs: Video walkthrough of the cost templateThis video will walk you through the National Academies' cost driver template, to show you how to use the cost driver template to estimate your own (biomedical) data sharing costs.
- NAP on biomedical data costs: The complete study reportTakes you to the full National Academies' site on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data. Includes the consensus study report, Life-Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data: The Challenge of Forecasting Costs. Downloadable in PDF format for free. Several related tools and videos are linked in the "resources" section.
- NAP on biomedical data costs: A checklist for administratorsA generalized checklist of things to consider, drawn from the larger National Academies report
- NAP on biomedical data costs: Workbook direct downloadUse this link to download the National Academies workbook on cost drivers for data management and sharing. Downloads in MS Word (.doc) file format.
- NIMH Data Archive (NDA) Data Submission Cost Estimation ToolEstimator for costs in data preparation and deposit work with NDA: the NIMH Data Archive. This also applies to NIAAA and NIDA deposits in the NDA, NIAAA-da, and related repos.
