What costs for data publication are covered by the SNSF?

The SNSF allows researchers to budget “Costs for granting access to research data (Open Research Data)” up to a maximum of CHF 10’000. These costs are part of the regular budget and have to be included at the time of proposal submission. The costs may be claimed for the publication of data that was collected, observed or generated under the specific SNSF grant.

The following costs can be budgeted in this category:

• Costs for data upload into a (non-profit) repository
• Internal or external costs for data preparation, e.g. internal or external personal costs. It is important that the exact person-months and hourly rate are declared to the SNSF in the cost report.

What is not covered:

• Recurring maintenance costs for data storage in a repository. Exceptionally, maintenance costs could be accepted if charged as non-recurring costs combined in a package with the upload costs.