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Troubleshooting Public Data Archiving: Suggestions to Increase Participation

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

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: 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.

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  • Dominique G Roche & Robert Lanfear & Sandra A Binning & Tonya M Haff & Lisa E Schwanz & Kristal E Cain & Hanna Kokko & Michael D Jennions & Loeske E B Kruuk, 2014. "Troubleshooting Public Data Archiving: Suggestions to Increase Participation," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(1), pages 1-5, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pbio00:1001779
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001779
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    1. Lloyd W. Morrison & Craig C. Young, 2016. "Standardization and Quality Control in Data Collection and Assessment of Threatened Plant Species," Data, MDPI, vol. 1(3), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Dominique G Roche & Loeske E B Kruuk & Robert Lanfear & Sandra A Binning, 2015. "Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well Are We Doing?," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-12, November.
    3. Dominique G Roche & Loeske E. B Kruuk, 2015. "Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well are We Doing?," Working Papers id:7811, eSocialSciences.
    4. Renata Gonçalves Curty & Kevin Crowston & Alison Specht & Bruce W Grant & Elizabeth D Dalton, 2017. "Attitudes and norms affecting scientists’ data reuse," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(12), pages 1-22, December.
    5. Brinkerink, Jasper & De Massis, Alfredo & Kellermanns, Franz, 2022. "One finding is no finding: Toward a replication culture in family business research," Journal of Family Business Strategy, Elsevier, vol. 13(4).
    6. Karin Hansson & Anna Dahlgren, 2022. "Open research data repositories: Practices, norms, and metadata for sharing images," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(2), pages 303-316, February.

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