Resources

Policies, Reports, and Policy Statements

Council on Government Relations. Access to and Retention of Research Data: Rights and Responsibilities, Washington, D.C.: 1995. (Link)

University of Pittsburgh. Guidelines on Data Retention and Access, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, 1997. (Link)

American Statistical Association. Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1999. (Link)

Harvard University Medical School. Office of Technology Licensing. Record-Keeping Procedures, 2000. (Link)

United States. Congress. USA Patriot Act of 2001, PL 107-56, 2001. (PDF)

Food and Drug Administration. Good Laboratory Practices for Designing Toxicology Studies for Petition Submissions and Notifications, 21 CFR Part 58 (2002). (Link)

Society for Clinical Data Management. Good Clinical Data Management Practices, Version 2, Hillsborough, NJ: Society for Clinical Data Management, 2002. (Link)

National Institutes of Health. NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance, 2003. (Link)

General Information Web Sites

National Institutes of Health. Office of Extramural Research. NIH Data Sharing Policy, Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health, nd., (Link)

Society for Clinical Data Management. Home Page, 2003. (Link)

Additional Reading

Campbell, EG, Clarridge, BR, Gokhale, M, Birenbaum, L, Hilgartner, S, Holtzman, NA, Blumenthal, D. “Data Withholding in Academic Genetics: Evidence from a National Survey,” Journal of the American Medical Association 287, 4 (2002): 473-480.

Council on Government Relations. Materials Transfer in Academia, Washington, DC: Council on Government Relations, 1997. (Link)

DeMets, DL. “Statistics and Ethics in Medical Research,” Science and Engineering Ethics 5, 1 (1999): 97-111.

Gardner, MJ. “An Exploratory Study of Statistical Assessment of Papers Published in the British Medical Journal,” Journal of the American Medical Association 263, March 10 (1990): 1355-1357.

Kanare, HM. Writing the Laboratory Notebook, Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1985.

Knobler, SL, Mahmoud, AAF, Pray, LA, eds. Biological Threats and Terrorism: Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002.

Stevens, AR. Ownership and Retention of Data, Washington, DC: National Association of College and University Attorneys, 1997. (Link)