Research Hub
ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
Data Archiving
Our goals for data archiving are:
- A high-quality long-term archive for raw data taken under all non-proprietary proposals.
- A robust mechanism for handling future storage-technology changes, including retrieval of data.
- To leverage Australian Government initiatives in e-Science, to the benefit of our users.
- A belief that the scientific world is heading towards more open-access to raw data taken at publicly funded research facilities (e.g. telescopes, the Human Genome Project, etc.)
- A need to show a clear and transparent return on investment to the Australian Government, for its capital and operational investment in OPAL and its instruments.
- The desire to protect scientific priority for our users (especially PhD students), for a reasonable period.
These considerations only apply to non-proprietary research at OPAL, with the following definitions of proprietary and non-proprietary research.
| Proprietary Work: | Fee-for-service & 100% ownership of data Safety review of proposed |
Non-proprietary Work: | Scientific peer review of proposal (including safety review) Raw data will be deposited in a public-access archive after 3 years, unless requested to do otherwise by PI of proposal. |
| Other useful webpages: | Data Access Policy at the Australia Telescope Data Access Policy at the European Southern Observatory in Chile |
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