The Data Use Oversight System (DUOS) is a platform for sharing controlled-access data. Learn how DUOS streamlines Data Access Requests for researchers.
Making sure researchers can access the right data, right away
Currently, researchers submit over 100,000 data access requests per year to data access committees across the globe. With the number of researchers, research tools, and genomic data rapidly increasing, the number of data requests and the demand on data access committees is becoming unmanageable. This leads to slow turnaround times for researchers on their data access requests, delaying research and potential advancements.
DUOS aims to solve this problem by creating a single interface by which researchers can submit requests to multiple DACs around the world, instead of going through a unique process for each data access committee. With DUOS’ additional tools for data access committees (Library Card Agreements and DUOS' matching algorithm), DUOS is rapidly decreasing the turnaround time to help researchers access more data, faster, and with less effort.
Next steps
To learn more about how to use DUOS to access data, read How to make a Data Access Request (DAR) in DUOS.