Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing

As research funders and scholarly publishers move towards making research data more accessible and reproducible, the need has emerged for data sharing policies that respect a basic attribute of many data: the community in which they originated and/or may describe. In 2023, a partnership was formed between leaders from the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, ENRICH, Te Kotahi Research Institute, the American Geophysical Union, and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) to convene scholars, publishers, editors, and metadata experts to develop guidelines for the scholarly publishing ecosystem to implement the CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics) Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. For over two years, a community of 100+ participants came together to create the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing, a freely available and first of its kind tool. We'll share the recently published Guidelines, key recommendations, and how you can help drive collective impact by adopting it in your role(s) as researcher, author, reviewer, editor, publisher, and community member.