Sharing & archiving

Sharing your data

Please check with the principal investigator of the project if you are allowed to share data with researchers from other universities or institutes and under which conditions. Most of the larger cohort studies use standardized data analyses plans to request data. For some studies we use data sharing agreements or other research contracts.

If you want to share data with co-researchers outside Amsterdam UMC/VUmc please do not use cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. While the cost of using an online Cloud service may be low, the expenses/costs associated with the repercussions of a breach could be very high. When you need secure file storage and/or share these with colleagues (also from other universities) you can use SURFfilesender or ask our datamanagers how to proceed.

More information about data sharing can be found in the Research Roadmap of Amsterdam UMC.

Archiving your data

For audits and inspections we are obliged to archive all our research information in a standardized manner, in a Trial Master File / Investigator Site File (TMF/ISF). All essential research documents need to be filed on paper as well. Essential documents are documents that enable the reconstruction of the data collection, for example approval letters by the METc and other communication with the METc, insurance documents, informed consents etc. These documents need to be kept in their orginal form, on paper with original signatures. 

For digital archiving use the local project maps on the network. 

At location Oldenaller there is room for non digital materials that need to be archived (the original (raw) data recorded in a physical form). Examples: Questionnaires, analogue tapes, lab results and paper logbooks. If there are electronic versions of the original data, i.e. scanned questionnaires (images), then the paper versions should not be stored in the physical archive. Contact persons for the physical archive are Eva Fris and Mariska Bot.

We are developing a Archiving Protocol which will be published soon.

More information about what should be archived can be found in the Quality Handbook APH.