Troubleshooting Public Data Archiving: Suggestions to Increase Participation

Dominique G Roche, Robert Lanfear, Sandra A Binning, Tonya M Haff, Lisa E Schwanz, Kristal E Cain, Hanna Kokko, Michael D Jennions and Loeske E B Kruuk

PLOS Biology, 2014, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: : Public data archiving has many benefits for society, but some scientists are reluctant to share their data. This Perspective offers some practical solutions to reduce costs and increase benefits for individual researchers. An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs. Improving participation in PDA will require lowering costs and/or increasing benefits for primary data collectors. Small, simple changes can enhance existing measures to ensure that more scientific data are properly archived and made publicly available: (1) facilitate more flexible embargoes on archived data, (2) encourage communication between data generators and re-users, (3) disclose data re-use ethics, and (4) encourage increased recognition of publicly archived data.

Date: 2014
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