Openly accessible research data is one of the aspects of open science. Scholarly journals can nowadays also require researchers to make the research data openly accessible when publishing their results.
On this page, you can read about different ways to make research data accessible, about data management plans and a tool to help create such plans.
Openly accessible research data
Researchers can choose to make their research data openly accessible by publishing them in a repository. An advantage of doing this is that it allows the data to be cited in a similar manner as research results when they are published. In some cases, research funders and journals can require supporting data to be made openly accessible.
Research data with limited access
For legal reasons, not all research data can med made openly accessible, for example if they include personal data, sensitive or confidential information, or material protected by copyright. In these cases, an alternative can be to make the data accessible with limited access. To get access to such data, a request must be submitted to the responsible authority (for example, Link枚ping University), which will then review the request to determine if the data can be handed out with transferred confidentiality.
Please also note that research data produced at universities and research institutions in Sweden in most cases are considered to be public records and will be handed out should someone request it and if no reasons of confidentiality exist.