In October 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued its Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy to "promote the management and sharing of scientific data generated from NIH-funded...research." This effort is part of the NIH's larger goal of "making the results and outputs of NIH-funded research available to the public."
The policy went into effect in 2023, requiring researchers to submit a prospective plan outlining how data from their research project will be preserved and shared. Scientific data is defined by the policy as "recorded factual material...of sufficient quality to validate and replicate research findings," and the plan asks that information be shared by researchers to the maximum extent possible.