research data law

Open science, innovation, public data
1st edition 2022
by Agnès Robin

Since the principles of open data have been asserted at both European and national level, in the service of a particularly proactive research and innovation policy, scientific research data have gradually become a genuine subject of law. Representing the data collected or produced in the course of a scientific research activity, research data are not covered by a single legal and regulatory system within European or French positive law. The governance of research data therefore requires the convening and mastery of a heterogeneous set of rules. Drawing on the chronology of the data life cycle, as well as on practices developed within disciplinary communities, the book aims to provide an understanding of the legal environment of research data, before presenting the rules that apply successively to data acquisition and collection, dissemination and sharing, and finally to data reuse and valorization. It is aimed at academics, researchers, doctoral students and legal practitioners (jurists or lawyers) who not only have to organize the governance of research data, but also decide how to secure, preserve, access, disseminate or exploit it. See the publisher's website