What support services exist or can be developed to help investigators comply with both current and anticipated funder and publisher requirements regarding the management of their data? The CCTS has joined the UAB Research Data Management Working Group to help survey faculty investigators in search of the answer. This will be followed by select interviews and campus outreach before the working group develops its recommendations. The entire process is designed to be driven by investigator needs.

The impetus derives from a 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) instruction to all federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop policies for making the published results and associated data from federally funded research available to the public. Data management plans are now required as part of grant proposals.