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Engage in open science and open scholarship

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Duke is committed to a culture of open science and open scholarship to ensure transparency and accountability in research. This commitment involves making scientific processes, data, analyses, and publications as accessible as possible. This page contains information on best practices, and resources for sharing research data, publications, and other outputs.

Software and code sharing

Similar to data sharing, Duke encourages an environment of open sharing of software and code that are created as research outputs. However, there may be requirements or limitations for sharing software and code based on funder requirements or other collaborative agreements. The NOA or the appropriate grants or contracts specialist should be consulted to ensure compliance with any code sharing requirements:

Duke provides an institutional license to GitLab, which is an open source code sharing repository. For assistance with utilizing GitLab or to explore alternative options for software and code sharing, contact Research Computing or the Center for Data and Visualization Sciences.

Publishing in open access journals

Open access (OA) describes the principles and practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or barriers such as restrictive licensing. Open access enables greater research impact and broader dissemination of findings by reducing barriers to access for other researchers, stakeholders, and members of the community.

Though the Duke Libraries and Medical Center Library, Duke-Supported Open Access Initiatives can defray article processing charges (APCs) for gold open access in journals or offer no-cost publishing options for researchers’ books and articles.

Public access and open access policies

All U.S. federal funders, including the NIH and NSF, require investigators to make research findings publicly available through specific repositories and programs.
The NIH public access policy requires researchers to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH-funded research to PubMed Central via the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system immediately upon acceptance for publication. Please note that this reflects NIH’s updated Public Access Policy that went into effect on July 1, 2025. See the Medical Center Library website for more information.

The NSF public access initiative requires publications from NSF sponsored research to be submitted to the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR) via Research.gov.

In a commitment to open scholarship, the Duke University Faculty Open Access Policy enables all scholarly articles authored by Duke faculty to be made freely available in the DukeSpace repository.

Data sharing

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