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Access to Research Data in the 21st Century An Ongoing Dialogue Among Interested Parties: Report of a Workshop (2002) / Chapter Skim
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5 Alternative Approaches to Data Access
Pages 22-25

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... The Institute's procedures are specifically designed to maintain objectivity in controversial regulatory situations. HEI has a separate board of directors, standing research committee, and peer-review committee, with no direct sponsor participation.
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... National Research Council. The National Research Council of the National Academies provides a different mechanism for data sharing and data assessment through independent studies by panels of experts.
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... The HEI reanalysis of the Six Cities Study was moderately expensive and time consuming; costing approximately $1 million over 2.5 years. A full committee report of the NRC at the National Academies costs several hundred thousand dollars to produce.
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... ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO DATA ACCESS 25 consensus development conference costs about $500,000 and takes approximately 1 year. The NCHS charges for access to its research data in several ways, with remote access costs at $500 per month for fields of under 130,000 records, and on-site access costs at $200 per day, plus a $500 set-up fee to retrieve the data files.
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