The Office of Research Administration (ORA) in the Office of Research and Technology Management is responsible for the review and negotiation of data use agreements (DUAs). We assist with the preparation and execution of these documents. Every DUA must be signed by an authorized signatory for the university; this can only be done by the ORA.
In order to initiate a Data Use Agreement or Data Access Agreement, a Data Use/Access Request Form needs to be submitted.
- The form has questions designed to help DUA staff determine the type of DUA needed and regulatory requirements.
- As you are completing the form, please provide as much detail as possible.
- The form has branching logic and contains questions regarding funding, type of data to be accessed or transferred, data storage, data security, and human subjects information.
- To assist with the completion of the form all of the questions, branching logic and additional guidance are provided in the DUA request form and guidance document.
If you have questions about data use/access agreements please email cwru-dua@case.edu with your questions and a DUA staff member will get back to you.
Master DUAs
To ease data sharing between CWRU and two of its partners, we use Master Data Use Agreements (DUAs) to govern the transfer of data, but paperwork is still required for each individual relationship in which investigators wish to share data. The PASA: DUA/MTA Unit has negotiated Master DUAs with both University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) and Cleveland Clinic.
Even with these overarching agreements in place, a principal investigator or department administrator is still required to complete a DUA Request Form to send or receive data to or from UH or Cleveland Clinic.
The master agreement expedites and simplifies the process so we don’t need to negotiate the terms and conditions of the agreement every time; We simply need to conduct our due diligence review and can then execute an addendum to address what will be shared between PIs.