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The benefits of data sharing have been powerfully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic: shared data made possible the rapid development of public health policies, treatment guidelines, therapies, and vaccines. And with the issuance of the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy and the OSTP memo on public access to research, funders are mandating that research data should be well-described and, whenever possible, readily discoverable to enable re-use.

FAIRsharing.org is a curated, searchable registry of metadata standards; databases and repositories; and funder and journal policies that are relevant to specific domains or types of data.