Exposing OMPs: a funder use case RDA Exposing DMPs Working Group 2 April 2019 David Carr Programme Manager - Open Research, The Wellcome Trust d.carr@wellcome.ac.uk ORCID: 0000-0003-1435-307X Slides made available under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Wellcome’s policy on outputs management policy on managing and sharing data, software and materials published in July 2017, replacing our previous long-standing policy on data management and sharing requires our funded researchers to make research outputs available with as few restrictions as possible, in a manner that maximises health benefit researchers are required to provide an outputs management plan (OMP) as part of their funding application, where their outputs are likely to hold value as a resource for other researchers we commit to review OMPs and meet justified costs as an integral part of the funding decision

OMPs: untapped potential At present, OMPs are unstructured (free text), static and not made public This severely limits their value: for us as a funder – in tracking and monitoring compliance with our policy requirements for our grantholders – in terms of using plans as their research proceeds for research users – for whom the plan might signpost outputs of potential interest

Compliance monitoring – current approach In our policy, we commit to check at end-of-grant the extent to which outputs have been managed and shared in line with our requirements OMPs are collected as a free text field on our application form within our grants system (Grant Tracker) Wellcome now collects outputs data from our grant- holders via ResearchFish Compliance checking involves manually comparing the OMP with outputs information fields extracted from ResearchFish

Maximising the potential of OMPs we would ideally like OMPs to be: structured dynamic and updateable publicly exposed integrated with other systems machine-actionable initial plans to take forward a voluntary pilot on hold, but remain keen to take forward later in 2019 want to work with other funders and broader RDA community to maximise value of DMPs/OMPs Dr Jonathan Clarke, Wellcome Images