Publishing costs for the SPARC Portal

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.

5. Include SPARC in your grant, and let us know that you have set aside data sharing funds for SPARC (email us at [email protected] or submit a data/model request).

• More information at https://sparc.science/share-data.

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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

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.

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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.