Taking the pain out of data sharing – Nature (Mathew Hutson | October 2022)
There are plenty of good reasons for you to share the data from a research project. Amongst other things, they can increase the impact of your research and it can benefit your career. There are also ethical arguments for data sharing, especially when the process of collecting/generating/accessing data has risks and/or burdens associated with it. It does require you to anticipate the sharing in your application for research ethics review and in your consent material (accompanied with something like a opt-out tick box, so people can indicate that they consent in participating in your research project and separately indicate if they are happy for their data to be shared). There are also considerable efficiencies and public good in such sharing. This is why an increasing number of research funding bodies, institutions and publishers are calling for researchers to share their data. This fantastic Nature piece discusses some of the practicalities.