Population and INED Editions have their own data policy, and here it is

In January 2026, INED Editions published a policy for data connected to its publications, of which Population is a part. You will find it below, and can download a PDF version at this link.

In accordance with INED’s policy of support for the open sharing of research data wherever possible, and in the aim of ensuring reproducibility and the transparency of analyses, INED Publications encourages authors to provide access to the sources, data and code on which their contributions are based.

It is not always possible to share data, notably for reasons of ethics or confidentiality. This policy thus does not create a data sharing obligation for authors who wish to publish with INED.

The objective of this document, which is based on a model published by the Comité pour la science ouverte,1 is to set out:

  • the data to which this policy applies,
  • how data must be hosted to ensure secure storage and long-term accessibility,
  • how data must be made available and in what timeframe,
  • whether and how data are peer reviewed,
  • association mechanisms between data and publications.

1. Definition of research data and exceptions

This policy applies to research data potentially needed to check the results presented in INED publications.

Research data2 include data produced or reused by the authors and analysed in their study. These data can be of various kinds, and take various forms:

  • statistical databases (for example, anonymized individual survey data),
  • database metadata (data documentation, data collection methodology, etc.),
  • source files for figures and graphs (in the form of statistical tables),
  • computer programmes and algorithms,
  • other data: interview transcripts, images, videos, maps/cartographic data, etc.

Research data that are not necessary to check the results reported in publications are not covered by this policy. Such data can be published, where appropriate, in the form of online supplements.

This policy is limited by the legitimate exceptions stipulated by law, for example with regard to the protection of confidentiality or secrecy (defence, professional, medical, industrial and commercial, etc.), personal data privacy or copyright protection.3

2. Data access and hosting

Data should be made available, as much as possible, in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

INED Publications thus encourages authors to use open and standard formats.4

Moreover, authors are encouraged, whenever possible, to deposit the data that contributed to the writing of the publication in a repository that adheres to open science standards (FAIR principles, open licences) and that will guarantee secure storage and access to the data, in particular through the attribution of a permanent identifier.

The appropriate choice of repository depends on the discipline and the nature of the data. It may be, for example:

  • the repository of the institution to which the author is affiliated, if any,
  • a disciplinary repository that is recognized by the community, such as Nakala or Quetelet-PROGEDO for the social sciences
  • a generalist repository that hosts various types of data, such as Recherche Data Gouv (France) or Zenodo
  • a dedicated code-sharing repository, such as Software Heritage.

Details on the characteristics of the various data repositories are available on specialist websites, such as DataCiteCommons and Re3data.org.

In any case, authors should check that the chosen repository meets the main quality criteria to ensure long-term access to the data.5

3. Data availability procedures

At the time of submission
Authors are not required to transmit data when submitting their contributions.

Peer reviewing phase
Data associated with publications are not themselves subject to peer review.

Authors are solely responsible for the scientific quality of data and for compliance with the legal rules governing their reproduction and distribution.

However, the data must be made available to the reviewers if required to evaluate the contribution (those associated with contributions to the Data Papers category of Population, for example).

After acceptance
INED Publications encourages authors to share data under open licences that allow for their free reuse. Authors must use the licences recommended by the repository where the datasets were deposited.

In publishing with INED Publications, authors commit, if they make data and metadata available, to ensuring their continued availability (either in open access or on request if the data cannot be widely shared) for at least 5 years after their contribution has been published.

If immediate access to data cannot be given, they can be made available after an embargo period, or with restricted access.

The alternatives to making personal or sensitive data available in open access are:

  • Anonymizing data before making them available in open access.
  • Provision of data on request, exclusively for research purposes, in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements.
  • Making available only metadata.

4. Publications and data linking

Authors are asked to establish and provide unique, permanent identifiers for publicly accessible data (in particular DOI, Handle).

Data citations must include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:

Author(s), year, title, publisher (name of repository or archive), identifier (DOI, Handle).

Moreover, authors are strongly encouraged to indicate, for all data presented in publications, whether and how they are being made available, either in a specific section (Data Availability Statement) or in an explanatory note. For example:

  • The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available on [name of repository]; [DOI].
  • The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not available in open access but are available from the author on reasonable request.
  • Data sharing does not apply to this article because no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
  • The datasets on which the current study is based were not generated by the authors. They are available online: Creator (Year of publication). Title. Version. [Repository Name]. [DOI].

Contact

Authors may send any questions about the data policy for INED publications to: editions.donnees[at]ined.fr.

We invite authors to contact their institution’s support services as regards good practices for data management and sharing.

[1] Romain Féret, Françoise Gouzi, Sandra Guigonis, Hélène Jouguet, Nicolas Larrousse, Armelle Thomas. Guidelines for journals that wish to establish a “data policy” related to their publications. [Research Report] Comité pour la science ouverte. 2021. https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03640532v1
[2] Research data are defined as ‘documents in a digital form, other than scientific publications, which are collected or produced in the course of scientific research activities and are used as evidence in the research process, or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results’. (Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of The Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information).
[3] See Véronique Ginouves, Isabelle Gras (Eds.), 2018, La diffusion numérique des données en SHS - Guide de bonnes pratiques éthiques et juridiques. Presses Universitaires de Provence. https://amu.hal.science/hal-01903040v1
Lionel Maurel, 2018. La réutilisation des données de la recherche après la loi pour une République numérique. In: La diffusion numérique des données en SHS - Guide de bonnes pratiques éthiques et juridiques. Presses Universitaires de Provence, pp. 49-60 [online] : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01908766
Lionel Maurel. Données personnelles et recherche: quelle articulation dans le RGPD ? S.I.Lex, 18 July 2018: https://scinfolex.com/2018/07/18/donnees-personnelles-et-recherche-scientifique-quelle-articulation-dans-le-rgpd/
[4] For more information on recognized data formats and standards, see: https://fairsharing.org  [5] https://doranum.fr/depot-entrepots/criteres-pour-choisir-entrepot_de_donnees_10_13143_zqpb-9449/
Entrepôts de confiance et entrepôts certifiés. DoRANum. https://doi.org/10.13143/AX4T-HH68
See also the list of trusted repositories at https://recherche.data.gouv.fr/fr/entrepots  and the list of repositories recommended by Open Research Europe: Open Research Europe-approved repositories