The University of Groningen’s new PhD regulations [1] include the provision that data must be made available for further research. The precise measure of this accessibility is not specified, and neither is it indicated how this access is to be realised. Other articles of the PhD regulations, however, provide a framework. PhD students are required to confirm their adherence to the Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice, and to make agreements with their supervisors in a training and supervision plan at an early stage.
2.3.5. As soon as the application for admission to the PhD programme has been approved, the PhD student and the supervisors and co-supervisors will, in accordance with the requirements of the Graduate School, submit a fully completed training and supervision plan to the Graduate School for approval by the director of the Graduate School, at the latest at the beginning of the PhD programme, stating the subject of the PhD thesis and the names of the supervisors and co-supervisors the PhD student wants appointed or approved, and if possible the dates on which the result and development meetings will take place. After the training and supervision plan has been approved by the director, it will be signed by the Dean. The Dean is responsible for registering the training and supervision plan in Hora Finita.
2.3.6. PhD students will confirm in Hora Finita that they will adhere to the Dutch Code of Conduct for Academic Practice issued by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the University of Groningen’s Regulations for the Protection of Academic Integrity.
4.1.5. Data (such as databases) with accompanying explanatory notes will certainly be made available for further academic research.
The Rector Magnificus may grant a full or partial exemption from this requirement for a certain period if there are compelling reasons to do so.