Open Access for Quebec FRSQ funded health research publications
The Quebec health research fund ( Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) ) has mandated all full or partially funded projects to publish their research outputs ("peer reviewed publications") to an open access site not less than 6 months after publication. This policy went into effect January 1 2009. While this is excellent news, it would have been even better news if the policy took a broader view of research outputs and included research data in its open access policy, mandating research data management and release, similar to the policies of CIHR , Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) , NIH , Genome Canada , UK Research Councils , the Australian government , the European Research Council (ERC) and others. The benefits of sharing research data - especially health data - are well documented .