Data Management in Psychological Science: Specification of the DFG Guidelines

Calls for public access to research data have been ongoing for some time. For instance, in their “Recommendations for Secure Storage and Availability of Digital Primary Research Data” (2009) the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”, DFG) demanded that publicly funded data are freely available after the completion of a project. In line with this, in 2010 the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany called for long-term storage of and generally free access to research data.
In September 2015, the DFG published data management guidelines that affirmed these goals and asked research associations to consider their data management regulations and to develop appropriate standards for discipline-specific use and sharing of research data. The German Psychological Society (DGPs) joins the DFG and the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany in their mission to specify the DFG guidelines for the field of psychology. This document (a) emphasizes the importance of sustainable research data management, (b) defines what “primary data” are and how they should be stored, (c) defines standards and potential data sharing restrictions, and (d) defines the rights and duties of researchers that share data and researchers that use secondary data. The German Psychological Associations adopted these recommendations in September 2016.

This is an English translation of the original German recommendations, which have been published here:

Schönbrodt, F., Gollwitzer, M., & Abele-Brehm, A. (2017). Der Umgang mit Forschungsdaten im Fach Psychologie: Konkretisierung der DFG-Leitlinien. Psychologische Rundschau, 68, 20–35. doi:10.1026/0033-3042/a000341.

对公共获取研究数据的呼声已持续一段时间。例如，在德国研究基金会（德国研究共同体，DFG）于2009年发布的《关于数字原始研究数据安全存储和可用性的建议》中，DFG要求在项目完成后，公开资助的数据应免费提供。据此，2010年德国科学组织联盟呼吁长期存储并普遍免费开放研究数据。2015年9月，DFG发布了数据管理指南，确认了这些目标，并要求研究协会考虑其数据管理规定，并制定适用于学科特定用途和共享研究数据的标准。德国心理学会（DGPs）与DFG和德国科学组织联盟共同致力于明确DFG针对心理学领域的指南。本文件（a）强调了可持续研究数据管理的重要性，（b）定义了“原始数据”及其存储方式，（c）定义了标准和潜在的数据共享限制，（d）定义了共享数据和使用次级数据的学者的权利和义务。德国心理学会于2016年9月采纳了这些建议。这是对原始德语文本的英文翻译，该文本已在此处发布：Schönbrodt, F., Gollwitzer, M., & Abele-Brehm, A. (2017). Der Umgang mit Forschungsdaten im Fach Psychologie: Konkretisierung der DFG-Leitlinien. Psychologische Rundschau, 68, 20–35. doi:10.1026/0033-3042/a000341.