I recommend the following resources for background
information and sample policies relating to ownership,
custody and access to research data:

1. Access to and Retention of Research Data: Policy
Considerations, Council on Governmental Relations
(COGR)(1995).  Available online through National Research
Administrators Resources Network.

2. Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the
Research Process (Vols. I and II), Panel on Scientific
Responsibility and the Conduct of Research, National
Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering,
Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press (1992).

3. Estelle Fishbein, Ownership of Research Data 66
ACADEMIC MEDICINE 129 (1991).

4. Richard Jones, Is There a Property Interest in Scientific
Research Data? 1 HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL
447 (1986).

5. Richard D. Marks, Protecting Intellectual Property Rights
in Sponsored Health Care Research Projects 10 THE
COMPUTER LAWYER 1 (1993).

6. Barbara Mishkin, Urgently Needed: Policies on Access to
Data by Erstwhile Collaborators 270 SCIENCE 927 (1995).

Jim Simpson
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