Journals and funders allow exceptions from the requirement to publish data openly if this is not possible for legal or ethical reasons, such as protecting the integrity of research subjects. If the data contain personal and/or sensitive information you can publish data with restricted access using the Swedish National Data Service research data catalogue (link below). The catalogue will contain a link for requesting data, but the actual data will not be directly available. This way data can still be discoverable and "FAIR". You can provide the journal with a persistent link and include information in the paper's data availability statement about why data are not open, and where/how to request them. If data are requested from the SND catalogue, the request will be passed to SLU for a secrecy examination to determine if the data can be handed out or not.
Depositing personal data with SND is possible because SLU has a Personal Data Processing Agreement with SND, where SND processes personal data on behalf of SLU. You cannot deposit personal data with external repositories if SLU does not have such an agreement in place.
Please note that data should also be archived at SLU. If you deposit data with SND, this includes a process for archiving them as well.
It may be possible to publish data material containing personal information openly depending on the character of the data. To discuss this, contact DMS. We involve a data protection legal counsel if required.
