This research data policy applies uniformly to all Gold OA and Hybrid OA articles published in ISA journals. It is formulated in accordance with FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). This policy mandates standardized research data submission, open sharing, long-term archiving and persistent citation for all empirical, experimental, computational and survey datasets supporting published OA articles.
All authors are required to submit a formal Data Availability Statement (DAS) during manuscript submission. The statement shall clearly disclose the accessibility status of raw experimental data, processed datasets, code files, simulation models, questionnaires and other underlying research materials. Four standardized disclosure categories are adopted:
(1) Fully available data: All supporting datasets are deposited in trusted public data repositories with permanent DOI and open access links;
(2) Restricted available data: Data cannot be fully opened due to patient privacy, commercial confidentiality or ethical constraints, with clear restriction reasons and feasible data access application procedures provided;
(3) Data not publicly available: Legitimate non-sharing reasons must be explicitly explained;
(4) No additional data: No supplementary research data generated beyond content presented in the published article.
Authors are recommended to deposit complete research datasets into discipline-specific or general trusted repositories recognized by ISA, including ScienceDB, Figshare and institutional research data repositories. Core deposit requirements are listed below:
(1) Each dataset must be assigned a unique persistent DOI for permanent identification and stable long-term access;
(2) Complete metadata including project funding information, experimental parameters, data generation methods and version descriptions must be submitted together with datasets;
(3) All deposited datasets shall adopt consistent CC open licenses matching the corresponding OA article;
(4) Dataset DOIs and permanent access links must be cited formally in both article reference lists and data availability statements, following FORCE 11 data citation standards.
(1) Gold OA articles: Supporting research datasets shall be opened to the public immediately without embargo once the article is formally published online;
(2) Hybrid OA articles: Consistent with Gold OA data sharing rules; no embargo period is allowed for paid open-access article datasets;
(3) Reasonable embargo exception: Short-term data embargo is permitted only for confidential ongoing research projects, with a maximum embargo period of 12 months. Embargo applications must be reviewed and approved by journal editorial office in advance.
(1) All shared research data must comply with local research ethics regulations; human subject data and clinical trial data must complete anonymization processing before public deposition;
(2) No third-party copyrighted raw data shall be publicly released without official authorization;
(3) Dataset reuse must follow the original open access license; commercial data mining and secondary development shall comply with corresponding CC license terms.
This clause governs the submission, archiving, citation and long-term preservation of all article supplementary materials, including raw experimental data, processed datasets, research code, questionnaires, simulation files, original charts, unreported experimental records and other supporting supplementary documents associated with OA journal articles.
Corresponding authors are strongly encouraged to deposit all raw research data and complete supplementary materials into trusted third-party public data repositories prior to article publication, rather than only attaching supplementary files alongside the main manuscript. Independent archiving of research supporting materials can improve research transparency, ensure full compliance with FAIR data principles, and enhance the reproducibility and traceability of published research results.
(1) All datasets and supplementary materials hosted on external third-party repositories must be formally cited in both the main article reference list and the unified Data Availability Statement.
(2) Each deposited supplementary dataset shall be assigned a unique persistent DOI compliant with ISO 26324 standard issued by the DOI Foundation. Permanent DOI links must be embedded in the article to support long-term reliable access and automatic link resolution.
(3) Authors shall provide complete metadata for all archived supplementary materials, covering data generation methods, experimental parameters, version information and usage limitations, to guarantee data comprehensibility and secondary reusability.
All supplementary materials shall adopt the same Creative Commons license as the corresponding published article. The institutional repository will only archive metadata and permanent DOI links of external supplementary datasets, instead of duplicating full raw data files, to avoid redundant data storage and copyright conflicts with third-party data platforms.