Data Sharing
MRC/UVRI & LSHTM makes research data arising from funding to be made as open as possible and as restricted as necessary. Good research data management practices are followed throughout our projects.
Our good research data sharing and management means that these publicly funded research is more:
Why share our data
Making MRC/UVRI & LSHTM data easily accessible enables other researchers to reuse and analyze the data from other perspectives, with the potential of offering new insights from the original work. Making data available from previous experiments or observations is essential to new discoveries, openness helps to accelerate the pace of science.
Data sharing charge/Open access
All Medical Research Council (MRC) funded researchers are expected to comply with the UKRI open access policy.
In line with MRC, MUL strongly promotes the principles of open research data and aims to make the research process and findings as open, understandable and reproducible as possible. Sharing data will enhance the use of existing data, avoid duplication of research effort and stimulate new discoveries. To ease the sharing data a small charge is levied to cover activities involved required to prepare data for sharing this includes
The Data Sharing Committee (DSC)
All study data collected by the Unit are of sufficient scale or uniqueness to be of potential value to the wider research community and our aim is to maximize the use of our research data for the benefit of the public, to facilitate this an independent Data sharing committee was created.
This is the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research unit (Unit’s) Committee that is responsible for evaluating requests for the Unit’s data and lab samples by external researchers. The committee works in consultation with the Principal investigators, Unit Director and Research Governance.
Data Sharing: Processes
Potential Requesters are strongly encouraged to approach the relevant study investigators informally to discuss feasibility of data sharing. Study investigators/requestors can refer such requests using the data sharing agreement to the Data Sharing Coordinator on datasharing@mrcuganda.org who will share the requests with the independent data sharing committee. A feedback shall be given in four weeks.
How to request for data
To request for data, access the Data sharing policy and fill the relevant data sharing agreement for completed studies or ongoing studies/collaboration and send the request to the Data Sharing Coordinator on datasharing@mrcuganda.org.