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| If you decide to use OURRstore for archiving your data, please be prepared to reimburse us for the media and shipping costs. |
Ideally researchers should include the archiving costs in their grant budgets. This might be difficult for ongoing grants, since they might not have budgeted for archival costs. Similarly, pilot research projects also might not have a budget for archiving costs. In some cases, departments might be willing to cover the costs.
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- The data should be relatively static (i.e. does not change), as OURRstore is only intended as a secure, redundant archive, not a backup solution where one is making daily or weekly copies of changing data. (You may use ROSS, the Research NAS, or a cloud option if you need backup.)
- The data must be STEM related data (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). NSF's definition of STEM includes physical sciences, biosciences, geosciences, engineering, mathematics, technology (for example, computer and information sciences), and social sciences.
- While the data may include deidentified human subject data, it may not be clinical research data (i.e. data directly related to patient care or clinical studies of human disease). If the human research is basic science research, that is acceptable.
- Legally regulated data (for example, HIPAA, Controlled Unclassified Information, FDA clinical trial, ITAR/EAR, FERPA) is currently FORBIDDEN on OURRstore, per their agreement with NSF.
- If your files are subject to one or more Institutional Review Board (IRB) agreement(s) governing human subjects research, then it’s YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to ensure full compliance with your IRB agreement(s).
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| If you decide to use OURRstore for archiving your data, you must insure that your data complies with the above rules. |
How to request storage on OURRstore
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