Clinical Trials Registration and Informed Consent Posting Guideline

Created 2005 Administratively Revised 01/2019 Last Revised 11/2019 Washington University Guideline on Clinical Trials Registration Using Clinicaltrials.gov and Consent Form Posting Requirements Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the public dissemination of the results of research conducted by its faculty. This guideline describes Washington University efforts to support the requirement to register clinical trials […]

NIH T Grant Harassment Policy & Institutional Letter

On November 7, 2018, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a policy requiring applications for institutional training grants (T15, T32, T34, T35, T36, T37, T90/R90, TL1, TL4) must include a letter on institutional letterhead signed by a key institutional leader that describes the institutional commitment to ensuring that proper policies, procedures, and oversight are in place to […]

Digital Research Materials Repository

WashU Libraries are providing services to curate data and other research outputs (images, field sheets, spreadsheets, protocols, analysis scripts, etc.). Curation includes the management, enhancement and the preservation of the outputs of research conducted at Washington University in St. Louis. Visit the University Libraries website for more information.

Store Data Centrally via WashU Services

WashU RIS Research Data Storage Washington University’s Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) offers research faculty access to 5TB of free networked, high performance research data storage. Additional storage is available for a fee. How to get research data storage from RIS: Complete a request form for a new research data storage allocation (WUSTL Key required). This request form will be processed […]

Research Data Management Policies by Federal Agency

The White House Office of Science and Technology issued a directive in 2013 requiring federally funded scientific research publications and data sets to be made freely available to the public. As a result, many public and private funders also instituted directives on data sharing requirements. Below is a listing of data management policies from many […]