Recent Developments in Intergovernmental and National Data Access Policies

Chairs: Paul F. Uhlir, Director of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs, The National Academies, USA and Peter Doorn, Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), The Netherlands

In the past two years there have been several major data access policy initiatives at the international and national government levels. These have focused on improving the return on the public investment in research through the adoption of terms and conditions for more open access to and use of the data produced through publicly funded research. One such major initiative has been the China Scientific Data Sharing Program, which is the topic of a keynote presentation and another major session. In this session, four of these the new data policies will be explained by presenters who were involved in their development.