The NIH recognizes that making data accessible and reusable may incur costs. In its Supplemental Information to the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing: Allowable Costs for Data Management and Sharing, the NIH provides guidelines for reasonable costs related to data management and sharing that are allowed in budget requests. In general, allowed costs are:

• Curating data and developing supporting documentation
• Preserving and sharing data through established repositories (e.g. deposit fees)
• Local data management considerations (e.g. before deposit into an established repository)

In general, costs not allowed in budget requests are:

• Infrastructure costs usually included in indirect costs
• Costs associated with routine conduct of research (e.g. cost of gaining access to research data)

The NIH provides additional guidance on its Budgeting for Data Management and Sharing overview page.