The American Heart Assocuations's requirements covering most research grants awarded by the Association was developed with ScholarNext's guidance and expertise. The policy establishes expectations for researchers funded by the AHA to make underlying research data more accessible, transparent, and reusable, consistent with broader movements in open science and responsible data sharing in biomedical research. Rather than treating data as a byproduct of publication, the policy positions data as a primary research output that should be preserved, documented, and shared in ways that enable verification, replication, and secondary analysis.