Project enhances open access to research data
October 2, 2012
ANN ARBOR — The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research are joining forces to encourage open access to research data and closer links between publications and the data on which they are based.
A grant from the foundation will allow ICPSR to work with editors of peer-reviewed social science journals, leaders of data repositories, and research funding agencies to foster new standards in research transparency, data citation, and sustainable funding models for open access to data. (more…)