Open data offers a lot of promise, including reducing the burden on over-researched populations, but working through such matters as consent and identification requires time and effort most researchers don’t have available. But then is there perhaps a more significant resistance to someone else benefiting from your labours with little tangible return to you. This Times Higher Education story explores what really is going on.
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While 73 per cent of respondents to a global survey of academics conducted by information and analytics company Elsevier and Leiden University agreed that having access to other researchers’ data would be beneficial, 34 per cent admitted that they did not publish their own figures.
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The survey, which attracted 1,162 responses from all scientific fields, found that one in 10 researchers (11 per cent) would never be willing to allow other researchers to access their data. Sixty-four per cent said that they would, while 25 per cent were undecided.
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All take and no give? Many scientists resist shift to open data – Times Higher Education (John Elmes | April 2017)
Posted by saviorteam in Research Integrity on June 12, 2017
Keywords: Data management, International, News, Research integrity, Researcher responsibilities
Keywords: Data management, International, News, Research integrity, Researcher responsibilities
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