Abstract:

The funding agencies and universities of some developed countries formulate research data preservation policy. Through analyzing the specific content of these policies, including ownership, principal investigator, minimum preservation periods, place, format of research data and disposing the data over retention periods. We get some revelation: clearing rights and responsibilities of people involved in research data preservation, establishing complete rights protection system to protect research results, formulating policy to save resource of scientific research and increase scientific data utilization rate.

Key words: Research data, 　Preservation policy,  , Funding agency