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Research Data Management

This section outlines the guiding principles for the efficient data management in ANRF-funded projects and associated matters.

What is Research Data Management?

Research Data Management (RDM) is a systematic and scientific process for managing data throughout a research project, including its generation, documentation, processing, storage, publishing, archiving, sharing, and access. RDM ensures adequate data governance in research projects by ensuring ethical and legal compliance while working with private, personal or sensitive data, along with addressing prevailing issues like data privacy, security, integrity, quality and accessibility. Further, RDM helps to comply with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles and seeks to promote the optimum reusability of data by scientific community as well as the general public.

Why manage Research Data?

To ensure:
- Are we FAIR? (referring to FAIR data principles)
- Do we CARE? (referring to CARE principles)
It will benefit us and our collaborators:
- Establishing how we will collect, document, organize, manage, and preserve our data at the beginning of your research project has many benefits-
It will benefit the scientific community
Ideally, data should be managed so that any scientist (including the collector or data originator) can discover, use and interpret the data after a period of time has passed.

How to manage Research Data?

By adhering to ANRF guidelines on Research Data Management, that mandates the preparation and submission of a Data Management Plan (DMP) for all its project grants.

What is a Data Management Plan (DMP)?

A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a systematic document that details/records all the pertinent information needed for robust data management, from data creation to its reuse, covering all stages of the data lifecycle that comprises data collection, preparation, organization, processing, analysis, storage, archiving, publication, sharing, and repurposing. It consists of various questions related to various themes of data management processes that a data manager or the PI needs to answer while conceptualizing a project proposal. Simply, a DMP is a brief plan to define:

how data will be created
how it will be documented
where it will be stored, transferred, backed up during the project or after the project
how will it be shared & preserved
how access will be granted to data wherever appropriate
how data will be archived at the end of the project
description of any ethical or legal compliances related to data
provisions for the re-use of data

How to create a DMP?

Follow the link to register yourself on our ind-DMPTool ind-DMPTool is an interactive editor based tool that facilitates easy and seamless creation of DMPs using pre-defined DMP templates and guidance.

Research Publications

This section outlines the guiding principles for the effective management of research publications arising from ANRF-funded projects and associated matters.

ANRF mandates on Research Publication

ANRF-INFLIBNET research publication platform GARGI, which will ensure availability of all research publications, funded by ANRF. To optimize the advantages of research, any publication derived from research activities (ANRF-funded projects, in this case) must be disseminated in an efficient way and at the earliest opportunity to ensure open availability of research findings. In this regard, ANRF mandates the communication of research papers as per the below guidelines:

The LPIs/PIs must submit the final preprint version * of a research manuscript, resulting from the ANRF-funded projects, before submitting it to any Journal or Repository or Preprint Server, along with its metadata. ??Click here??
Further, the LPIs/PIs will make sure to link the preprint version to the final published version as and when it is published ??Click here??
Further the LPIs/PIs will make sure to submit the full paper of the final published manuscript, once its Embargo Period # is over. ??Click here??
In case of APC Paid open access publications the metadata and the paper (or its link) maybe uploaded immediately . ?? Click here??

*Preprint: In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper before its peer-review and formal publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available openly and freely, before or after a paper is published in a journal.

#Embargo Period: An embargo period in publication, especially within academic and journalistic realms, denotes a temporary restriction on access to information or material (research publications, in this case). This indicates that full-text articles, news reports, or other resources are not accessible to the general public or those who have not purchased access until a specified period has elapsed. Most journals put an embargo period ranging 12-24 months; however, it may be checked at the publisher’s website for actual information.

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