Data availability statement

Many scientific journals request authors to include a data availability statement (also called data accessibility statement) in submitted articles. We advise you to check if your target journal has any specific recommendations regarding the format.

If your data has already been submitted to FEGA Sweden

If your data has already been submitted and assigned an EGA Study ID, a statement could look like this:

The data generated in this study have been submitted to FEGA Sweden and made findable through the European Genome-phenome Archive web portal (https://ega-archive.org, study number: {insert EGA Study ID}). Access to the data will be granted for appropriate use in research and will be governed by the provisions laid out in the terms contained in the Data Access Agreement.

If your FEGA Sweden submission is still in progress

If your submission to FEGA Sweden has not yet been completed in time for publication, we advise you to create a metadata record describing your data. The last sentence in the example text below includes a reference to such a metadata record in SciLifeLab Data Repository. You can read more about metadata records in the SciLifeLab Research Data Management Guidelines.

A statement for that situation could look like this:

The data presented in this paper contain sensitive information that cannot be shared openly. Work on submitting the data to FEGA Sweden has been initiated. FEGA Sweden is a national node of the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA), which allows data to be shared under controlled access. The datasets in FEGA Sweden are findable through the European Genome-phenome Archive web portal (https://ega-archive.org). Information about the datasets included in this study is available at SciLifeLab Data Repository, DOI {insert DOI}.