Within the limits set by the superseding authority of Cornell, agreements with collaborators, and any applicable terms within sponsored agreement, the Principal Investigator (PI) has the right and authority to control the use of and access to any research data conducted under their management, including data used in publications or presentations. The PI is responsible for maintaining and retaining data, and ensuring their integrity. Full list of responsibilities found in section 1.3.6.

Cornell and Weill Cornell Medicine own the research data and related property rights that arise from the activities of their researchers and others who use university resources. This includes resources provided through grants, contracts, awards, or gifts.

• The Principal Investigator (PI) has the right and responsibility to ensure that research is accurately reported, as well as to select the vehicle most appropriate for publication. 
• The PI must ensure that any figures, tables, images, data, or assertions included in the publication can be defended from the raw data, and that they are not manipulated.

Section 1.3.11 contains full details on Publication.

Cornell University and WCM: Cornell and WCM have the right to access all research data generated under their auspices, supported by their funds, or conducted using their facilities. They have the right to take custody of research data. 

WCM Faculty, PI: WCM faculty, PI, or other researcher who leaves the University may request a copy of research data for projects on which they have worked. Submit requests to Senior Associate Dean of Research or Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research.

Section 1.3.10 contains full details on Research Data Access. 

If you are collaborating with researchers outside of the institution, including institutions located abroad, and this collaboration results in (a) published manuscript(s), you are responsible for archiving the raw data that pertains to your contributions in the publication(s). The same logic applies to grant applications.

Primary data and supporting images must be available for at least six years after publication. If data and images are used in a subsequent publication, or cited in a subsequent publication or grant application by faculty, then data must be available for an additional six years.

• For funded research, close-out is whichever comes first of these two events:
  • The end of the grant or contract agreement OR
  • 60 days prior to faculty member leaving institution 

Data should be deposited into WIDRR upon any of these three research milestones:

• within six months of publication
• wthin three years of final project closeout of all funded or unfunded research (i.e. your grant ended)
• 60 days prior to faculty member leaving position at Weill Cornell Medicine

Faculty must enter into the WCM Institutional Data Repository for Research (WIDRR), at minimum, the location of their datasets (including raw data), and provide a methods file sufficient for replication and audit of the research. 

In addition, faculty should:

• Include a pointer link to any datasets that are in a WCM-designated external respository. A list of accepted repositories can be found here: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/domain_specific_repositories.html. If your repository is absent from this list, please contact the Library.
• Associate a dataset to a milestone(s) and a project.
• Provide a methods file describing all the steps of your analysis starting from the raw data input file up to the published data output file. Faculty should specify all the software, parameters, and code used in the methods file. Intermediate experiments and data that are not necessary for replication of the research do not need to be preserved. 

Examples of what types of data to provide:

Basic and translational science