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2025-10-17

A new tool for Data Management Plans

The Main Library, together with Process Digitalization Department launched the new tool for creating data management plans.

The tool was presented during Open Access Week! This international initiative was started by the SPARC organization in 2008 and has been growing rapidly ever since.
 

In the spirit of openness, and in response to both funding agency requirements and researchers' needs, the Library – in cooperation with the Process Digitalization Department – launched a tool for semi-automatic creation of Data Management Plans (DMPs), which are required, for example, in grant applications to the National Science Centre (NCN).

 

A webinar presenting the tool was held during Open Access Week, on Wednesday, October 22 at 10:00 AM.
Link to the presentation from the webinar (in Polish)
 

The tool is designed to automate, simplify, clarify, and significantly shorten the process of creating Data Management Plans at MUG. Researchers filling in the form will receive hints and options to choose from. Access through the EOD platform, in module "Central Registry of the Research" (pol. "Centralny Rejestr Badań Naukowych").
 

We encourage you to test the tool. All suggestions are welcome and if you need training or presentation, please contact otwarta.nauka@gumed.edu.pl.
 

This year’s Open Access Week edition (October 20–26, 2025) was held under the theme Who owns our knowledge? With this question, the organizers aim to highlight the complex structure of knowledge ownership – how knowledge is created, who has access to it, and who is considered its author. On the one hand, publishers often appropriate the intellectual output of researchers by taking over economic copyright. On the other hand, research funded by public money should be accessible to the entire society that funds it through taxes – meaning, in essence, that the public should own it. Another growing concern is the unauthorized use of research outputs to train artificial intelligence tools, which makes it harder for researchers to benefit from their own work. Open access to knowledge is a direct response to these challenges.

 

License: CC BY 4.0
Source: openacessweek.org
   

 

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Regulations of collecting personal data in Medical University of Gdańsk

On 27 April 2016 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Union and of Council came into force. It relates to data processing for natural persons and the freedom of movement of such data. In the light of this and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), the Main Library would like to draw your attention to the following:

1. The administrator of your personal data is The Medical University of Gdańsk based in Gdańsk, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 3A, 80-210 Gdańsk,

2. The Data Protection Inspector at The Medical University of Gdańsk is Marek Rolewicz (iod@gumed.edu.pl),

3. Your personal data will be processed using the Tricity Libraries IT System (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music, Gdynia Maritime University, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, European Solidarity Centre) in order to enable the use of library resources on the basis of art. 6 par. 1 lit. A of the general regulation of personal data of 27 April 2016,

4. Your personal data will not be disclosed to other entities, except for entities authorized under the law, debt collection companies or companies supporting IT services,

5. Your personal data will be kept for a period required by law,

6. You have access to the content of your data and the right to demand its rectification. You have the right to remove data or limit its use. Further you have the right to transfer data and to raise an objection on how your data is processed. You may withdraw your legal consent for the use of your data at any time,

7. You have the right to make a complaint to the Office for Personal Data Protection if your complaint is justified and the administrator is found to be in breach of the general regulation of personal data of 27 April 2016,

8. Providing personal data is voluntary, however, the refusal to provide them may result in the refusal to provide the service.