Australian funding agencies have requirements relating to research data management.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) require researchers to address how they plan to manage or share their project's research data as part of a grant application.

Grant applicants will need to address how they will:

• plan their research data management
• store and secure their project's data
• disseminate and share their project's data
• make their project's data available for re-use.

At ACU, once a grant application is successful, researchers will be required to submit a Research Data Management Plan that expands upon the statement made in the grant application.