What Factors Influence Where Researchers Deposit their Data? A Survey of Researchers Submitting to Data Repositories

Researcher-library collaborations: Data repositories as a service for researchers.

INTRODUCTION New interest has arisen in organizing, preserving, and sharing the raw materials-the data and metadata-that undergird the published products of research. Library and information scientists have valuable expertise to bring to bear in the effort to create larger, more diverse, and more widely used data repositories. However, for libraries to be maximally successful in providing the r...

Investigation of Sharing and Reuse of Research Data among Researchers

Purpose: Sharing research data leads to the reusing that data. The purpose   is to describe the status of sharing and reusing research data amongst researchers. This examines the attitude, experience and barriers in reusing research data. Methodology: Applied quantitative survey method was used. Population  was 154 participants all faculty members of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University. Instrum...

Where Researchers Fear to Tread:

The Data Deposit Workflow: Involving Researchers in Timely Dataset Upload and Description

They are ready to be exported to a repository More descriptive metadata can be added by the curator Easier publishing as Linked Open Data Let ́s get our hands on data when it is created and circulates in the group -"Dropbox" with private cloud storage Collaborative wiki-based semantic environment for dataset description Fully open-source tools for preservation-friendly environment Research insti...

Data sharing in public health emergencies: a call to researchers

Editorials 158 Data are the basis for public health action , and rapid data sharing is critical during an unfolding health emergency. The information disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and accompanying online data sets is vital for decision-makers. 1 The deficiencies with existing data-sharing mechanisms, which were highlighted during the 2013–16 Ebola epidemic in west Africa, have bro...