The NIH data policy was designed
for data sharing primarily in the areas
of biomedical sciences, but was also
relevant to many closely related social
science fields such as psychology. On the
other hand, the NSF public access mandate
has specific requirements for social,
behavioral, and economic sciences that
explicitly define social science data as
the recorded factual material commonly
accepted in the scientific community as
necessary to validate research findings,
including original data and metadata.42
Its data management plan requirements
serve as a driver for change in descriptions
of social science data librarianship
positions. It is, therefore, not surprising
to observe the addition of an assignment
in data management plans to the job
responsibilities of data librarians who now have been actively involved in assisting
in the development of NIH and
NSF grant proposals at many academic
libraries