Opening up your data is part of good research practices. It increases the visibility of your work, leads to higher citation rates (twofold is not uncommon), and being transparent about your research shows integrity and credibility.
The EUR requires you to open up your research as much as possible. Many funders and journals have a similar policy and require you to provide a data availability statement during the grant application or submission process. This not only means that you have to prepare data for sharing, research itself should be designed with sharing in mind.
Opening up research is good practice, but not all research can be opened up. For example, when you are working with proprietary data, or very sensitive data, or if there are any reserved rights on the data you used. If this is the case, the EUR Data Repository allows you to put an embargo on the data. That means that the researcher may restrict access to data for a given amount of time. The dataset may still be published, but the data will only become accessible when the time period has expired. It is important to remember that embargoes are meant to be temporary.
If you have a situation where your data must be permanently inaccessible and the data may only be accessed by express conditions permitted by the researcher, we consider this scenario to be restricted access. In this situation, a metadata only record will be created in the repository while the data will be more securely stored in SURF YODA. A request can be made to the researcher via the metadata record.
If you have questions or concerns about opening your data and whether or not an embargo should be applied, your faculty data steward can help you address these issues.