NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy: Other NIH Data Sharing Policies

Use this NIIH decision tool to identify the products of your research and determine which NIH policies are applicable.

Expects investigators seeking more than $500K in direct support in any given year to submit a data sharing plan with their application or to indicate why data sharing is not possible. The policy will remain in effect for applications submitted before January 25, 2023. On January 25, 2023, this policy is replaced by the 2023 Data Management & Sharing (DMS) policy.

Expects sharing of large-scale human and non-human genomic data from NIH-funded studies through a publicly available data repository. All studies with human genomic data should be registered in dbGaP, and the data should be submitted to an NIH-designated data repository.  Non-human data may be submitted to any widely used data repository.

To comply with the GDS policy, NIH expects that investigators and institutions:
- Develop and provide a plan for sharing genomic data
- Provide an Institutional Certification form before the notice of award, if working with human data
- Share genomic data in a timely manner to an appropriate repository
- Responsibly use controlled-access data
- Appropriately cite controlled-access data in publications and presentations

Individual NIH Institutes, Centers, or Offices may have additional expectations - see GDS Policy Expectations by NIH Institute & Center resource below.

Consult this resource for additional expectations that individual NIH Institutes, Centers, or Offices may have.