The CONP is committed to promoting responsible research, sharing, and publication practices that uphold ethical standards and protect the rights of data subjects. Through the development of best-practice resources, we aim to provide guidance and support to researchers in conducting their work with integrity and transparency. By fostering inclusivity, privacy, and the collective human right to benefit from scientific progress, CONP strives to create an environment where open science flourishes and contributes to the advancement of neuroscience knowledge.
How the CONP governs the data it holds: read the essentials at the Portal’s Data Governance page and FAQ (July 2026) or greater depth in our GigaScience paper “Open Data Governance at the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP): From the Walled Garden to the Arboretum“.
Framework revision: work is under way on version 2.0 of the CONP Ethics and Data Governance Framework (2019), which will add new governance elements to the core elements of version 1.0.
New: the CONP Citizen Science Consent Tool (Zenodo), the consent instrument under which participants in the Courtois NeuroMod project openly shared their own brain-imaging data through the CONP.