Researchers funded by NIH are failing to make data available

Researchers should make data freely accessible.

3 Editorial If you have ever had the pleasure of leafing through old journals you would appreciate that the journals of yesteryear were quite different. A typical article from a scientific journal of the early 20th Century was much longer than those of today. Many articles in old journals contained lots of tables but few graphs. (The graph is a remarkably recent innovation.) And, surprisingly t...

Healing the NIH-Funded Biomedical Research Enterprise

Many feel that the R01 grant system supporting biomedical research in the U.S. is broken, discouraging entry of young investigators into the system and inadequately supporting more established investigators. Here, I argue for a "person-not-project"-based scheme that would permit creative, unfettered research by new investigators, better tie ongoing research contributions to continued funding, a...

The NIH policy on enhancing public access to publications resulting from NIH-funded research

On February 3, 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its policy on “enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research.” Through this policy, the NIH requests that publications resulting from NIH-funded research be deposited by the authors in an archive at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Authors can elect to have their publications rele...

Sizing the Problem of Improving Discovery and Access to NIH-Funded Data: A Preliminary Study

OBJECTIVE This study informs efforts to improve the discoverability of and access to biomedical datasets by providing a preliminary estimate of the number and type of datasets generated annually by research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It focuses on those datasets that are "invisible" or not deposited in a known repository. METHODS We analyzed NIH-funded journal art...

Integrating Economic Analysis into NIH Funded Research webinar summary