Data protection is also important after the end of the research. In addition to ongoing compliance with data protection principles, it is important to know how to publish and store data. This chapter covers the main issues that may arise when sharing personal data and makes some recommendations.
Both the immediate outcome of the research and its dissemination and use by society are important for the public interest. Achieving the objectives of open science also requires that the research results and the data used to obtain them are permanently available to all interested parties for a long time. Article 10(1) of the EU Open Data Directive 2019/1024 states that “Member States shall support the availability of research data by adopting national policies and relevant actions aiming at making publicly funded research data openly available (‘open access policies’), following the principle of ‘open by default’ and compatible with the FAIR principles.”
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Chapter “Selection and long-term preservation” of the guidelines on creating the data management plan by the University of Tartu Library