The publication policy describes recommendations and requirements for the publication of research data from health-related studies, with a focus on the services developed by NFDI4Health. It classifies resource types to be published, such as study descriptions or types of study documents or data collections, outlines licensing for such resources and usage of universal identifiers, as well as defines formatting and metadata description requirements for the published resources and their data.
For the metadata that describes the resources, the publication policy refers to the tailored NFDI4Health metadata schema, which is implemented in our services.

One of the purposes of NFDI4Health is to make data collected in health-related studies FAIR. The first step towards this is the publication of comprehensive information about the context and accessibility of the data and metadata. In addition, study documents contain further detailed information needed for the correct interpretation of the collected data and should therefore be published as well. The NFDI4Health publication policy describes the requirements for the publication of research data from health-related studies in the Health Study Hub. Researchers aiming at making their studies discoverable and corresponding research data FAIR are highly encouraged to stick to the NFDI4Health standards.