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 Data?
Research Benefits
- Find your own data years after you finish a project
- Enable others to replicate your work
- Enable others to conduct new analyses using your data
Compliance
- Be compliant with research funding organizations that require data management plans and data accessibility
- Be compliant with journals that require submission of supporting data files to accompany manuscripts
Trust
- Improves the integrity of the scientific and scholarly record
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.