Data sharing benefits the researcher, research sponsors, data repositories, the scientific community, and the public. It encourages more connection and collaboration between scientists, and better science leads to better decision-making. Openness can help to accelerate the pace of science through the reuse of data.
Why Share Research Data?
Research Benefits
- Improves the integrity of the scientific and scholarly record
- Enables others to reproduce your findings
- Enables others to conduct new analyses using your data
- Compliance with university, research funding organizations, and publisher policies
Incentives
- Data citation is becoming a standard across publishers, and standardized data repositories generate a data citation when you deposit your data. Thus, sharing your data in a repository results in credit for your work!