Findable, accessible, reusable and interoperable (FAIR) research outputs drive research impact and quality. The ARDC requires the application of the FAIR principles to our own materials and to materials from our co-invested projects. Learn about our FAIR policy and read our guidelines for ARDC co-investment projects.
ARDC and ARDC co-investment project partners, including:
By the end of reading this resource, you should understand the ARDC’s:
The ARDC recognises that findable, accessible, reusable and interoperable outputs of research drive research innovation, impact and quality. Researchers and the broader community stand to benefit from the knowledge produced by publicly funded activities.
The ARDC is a National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) facility, and it is the policy of the Commonwealth NCRIS program that “data generated, created, captured or stored by NCRIS funded projects will be made available to the wider research community based on the F.A.I.R. principles.”[1]
We are committed to maximising the impact of outputs of the ARDC and ARDC co-investment project activities by ensuring they are disseminated as widely as possible and in a manner which enables maximum reuse by humans and machines.
The ARDC requires the FAIR principles to be applied to its own materials and to outputs from co-investment projects, unless there is a valid case why the principles cannot be applied and it is accepted by the ARDC.
We provide guidelines and workflows for staff within the ARDC to provide clarity on how ARDC outputs can be made FAIR or on valid cases for exception.
We work with partners to define what FAIR means for the co-investment project and define steps to implement FAIR in the project. Learn more about our approach.
Read our full FAIR policy for ARDC or ARDC co-invested materials.
The ARDC supports the position in the context of FAIR that data should be “as open as possible and as closed as necessary”[2] [3]. Materials should be “open” where possible in order to foster reusability and to accelerate research, but in other cases they may need to have controlled access.
This guideline applies specifically to data and data outputs from ARDC co-investment projects.
ARDC staff will support co-investment projects to apply the FAIR Principles to the project data outputs across the project lifecycle. To that end, FAIR will be considered in the preparation of the project plan and relevant milestones will be tracked through progress and final reports.
Read our full:
FAIR Policy: ARDC and ARDC Co-investment Project Materials
Guideline For Partners: Exceptions on Openness of Partnership Materials
FAIR Guideline for ARDC Co-investment Project Data Outputs
ARDC FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs): A questionnaire to support FIP creation for data outputs in ARDC Co-investment Projects
