Publishing costs for the SPARC Portal
We invite you to consider submitting your research outcomes (data, models, devices) to the SPARC Portal. To determine if we are a good fit for each other, please see below.
1. Assess your project data sharing and management plans.
2. See if your project fits the Mission of SPARC.
3. If you have human subjects, review our policy about sharing of Protected Health Information (PHI) HIPAA .
4. Understand that your published data, models, and devices must meet SPARC standards.
- SPARC will provide consultations with our professional Curation team along with tools and documentation to aid this process.
- To better understand what this might entail, review the dataset submission process, file formats, and dataset publishing expectations below.
- You can find more information at https://sparc.science/share-data.
The NIH SPARC program is covering the cost of data/model curation and submission of datasets up to 100 GB until May 1 2025. After that time, SPARC will need to collect funds from those submitting data to defray curation, repository, maintenance, and other operating costs. Please consider including us in your grants for future projects using the information below as a guideline.
Review SPARC pricing
| Dataset Size | 1 Dataset | 2-5 Datasets | 5+ Datasets |
|---|---|---|---|
| <100 GB | $2,500 | $2,250 | $2,000 |
| 100 - 500 GB | $2,750 | $2,500 | $2,250 |
| 500 - 1 TB | $3,000 | $2,750 | $2,500 |
| > 1 TB | $3000 + $1500 for each additional TB | $2750+ $1500 for each additional TB | $2500+ $1500 for each additional TB |
SPARC may leverage different storage tiers (active and archival storage) depending on the activity of the dataset. Datasets will remain highly available and accessible independent of the storage tier through the SPARC Portal.
Submit a data/model request
- Those contributing more than 10 datasets or datasets over 5 TB should consider including SPARC as a coinvestigator (contact us at [email protected]).
For more information about Services SPARC provides, please visit https://sparc.science/about/what-we-offer.
Dataset publishing expectations
- Think of this as a process similar to publishing a manuscript
- Preparing datasets and protocols for submission can take quite a bit of time, especially for those submitting for the first time
- The Curation team has multiple submissions
- Once submitted, they will usually get initial feedback to you in ~7 to 10 days
- At this point you will iterate on corrections and improvements. This time depends on how well the data or protocol is prepared and responsiveness of investigators.
- Curation team tries to give a rapid turnaround on feedback to modifications
- Once the Curation team performs final checks and proofs dataset for publication, the Investigator must sign off changes before publication.
- Datasets are published on Fridays (it will be on SPARC Portal-URL works, but search may not work for a few days)
- Expect to allocate a minimum of a month, two is better, to complete the full process
Updated 20 days ago