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A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing

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  • Jessica L Couture
  • Rachael E Blake
  • Gavin McDonald
  • Colette L Ward

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Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. In this study, we tested the ability to recover data collected under a particular funder-imposed requirement of public availability. We assessed overall data recovery success, tested whether characteristics of the data or data creator were indicators of recovery success, and identified hurdles to data recovery. Overall the majority of data were not recovered (26% recovery of 315 data projects), a similar result to journal-driven efforts to recover data. Field of research was the most important indicator of recovery success, but neither home agency sector nor age of data were determinants of recovery. While we did not find a relationship between recovery of data and age of data, age did predict whether we could find contact information for the grantee. The main hurdles to data recovery included those associated with communication with the researcher; loss of contact with the data creator accounted for half (50%) of unrecoverable datasets, and unavailability of contact information accounted for 35% of unrecoverable datasets. Overall, our results suggest that funding agencies and journals face similar challenges to enforcement of data requirements. We advocate that funding agencies could improve the availability of the data they fund by dedicating more resources to enforcing compliance with data requirements, providing data-sharing tools and technical support to awardees, and administering stricter consequences for those who ignore data sharing preconditions.

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  • Jessica L Couture & Rachael E Blake & Gavin McDonald & Colette L Ward, 2018. "A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(7), pages 1-13, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0199789
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199789
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