Share Your Data on the Vivli Platform
Sharing the data from your completed clinical research helps advance scientific knowledge, is what many trial participants want and expect (as long as there are the appropriate safeguards), and more and more funders are mandating data sharing. Vivli as an organization works to support researchers to share and make it as easy as possible. The key questions and processes are outlined below. If you still have questions, fill out the form at the bottom of the page and the Vivli team will be happy to support you.
- Ease of sharing – Vivli makes it easy for you to meet your data sharing commitments to funders as well as journals and above all to the trial participants.
- Metrics report of data use – Vivli will provide, upon request, a report detailing how your data has been used in secondary publications – data you may use in future grant applications.
- Funders are increasingly mandating data sharing. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and many others are requiring that Individual Patient-Level Data from research they fund is shared. In addition, the updated NIH Data Sharing Policy goes into effect January 2023. (Further guidance on how to complete an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan using Vivli is available under our resources section.) For many funders, data sharing costs are an allowable research expense and may be built into future grant proposals and billed to current grants.
- Top journals such as the NEJM, BMJ, Lancet and other ICMJE journals require that the data sharing statement is made at the time of trial registration. Journals are publishing the data sharing statement at the time of publication. (Further guidance on how to use Vivli to meet publication, particularly ICMJE publication data sharing requirements is available under our resources section
- Moral obligations (owe it to trial participants). We owe it to participants of clinical trials who have volunteered to take part in this research for their data to be leveraged to maximize scientific knowledge. Surveys show that most participants want their data to be shared if adequate safeguards are in place.
- Increase citations. Sharing detailed clinical research data is associated with increased citation rate.
- Vivli is here to make it as efficient and easy as possible to share your anonymized human-subject participant level data and supporting documents. The Vivli team will support you every step of the way.
- Once you have created your Vivli account, you will be prompted to provide information about your study.
- The Vivli Data Contribution Agreement needs to be read, understood and signed by the Principal Investigator and an institution official.
- Vivli only accepts anonymized data. Your institution may provide support or Vivli has anonymization vendors who will offer support for this service.
- Once the submission has been accepted by the Vivli team, you will then be able to upload your anonymized data.
For more information, see our step-by-step Single Study Submission guidance.
If your academic institution is a member of Vivli there is no cost to deposit data in Vivli’s platform starting in 2023.
Please check our members, if you are unsure of the status of your institution.
If your academic institution is not a member, there is a one-time cost to use Vivli’s managed access process for clinical trials data. These costs apply only for academic and non-profit researchers who want to share their clinical data. For industry, please complete a member form and we will reach out to you directly to discuss your needs.
| Service | Item Type | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| One-time service fee • includes initial consult • metadata curation • archiving 10 yrs securely in the cloud • DOI for publications and grants | Clinical trial dataset (<500GB) | $4,000 USD |
| Anonymization fee per dataset | Optional fee | $10,000 USD |
| Larger datasets | Clinical trial datasets (>500GB). | $10,000 USD |
Additional options are available for academic, other non-profit researchers, industry researchers and their organizations, including membership, and may incur costs, reach out to support@vivli.org with questions.
See the Resources page for a template and guidance on how to complete the DMSP and budget justification for the NIH.
Data package – Protocol, anonymized individual participant-level dataset, data dictionary, and statistical analysis plan are recommended; additional elements such as an annotated case report forms, clinical study report, and analysis ready datasets can also be included. This video explains what is typically included as part of a data package and how you can make it more useable for future research.
When a research team requests your study, an Accelerated Research Proposal Review will be conducted within 3 business days. Vivli will manage the execution of the Data Use Agreement. Once these steps are completed, the Vivli team will work with the researcher to access the data and support them until they have published their results.
If you or your organization has clinical research data to share, please get in touch with us by filling out the form below and we will respond shortly.