From: "Clifford Lynch" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:15:15 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [96.235.147.24] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.0.5]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.9) with ESMTPSA id 31022339 for cni-announce@cni.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:58:34 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:52:33 -0400 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org Subject: UK Concordat on Open Research Data Issued Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" A multi-institutional stakeholder group in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2016 released a milestone document titled "Concordat for Open Research Data", which can be found at: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/concordatonopenresearchdata-pdf/ There is an announcement about the release at: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/concordat-on-open-research-data-launched-28-jul-2016 and a helpful blog post by Rachael Bruce at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/introducing-the-new-sector-agreement-for-open-research-data-28-jul-2016 giving some additional background. It would be wonderful to see stakeholders in the United States adopt a similar set of shared principles. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI