Sharing Research Data: Faculty Behavior and Attitudes
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2023-09-21
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Federal funders of research are increasing the stringency of their expectation that researchers make data collected in federally funded projects publicly available. In response, universities have increased support for public access to data collected by their faculty and staff. This article reports on researcher attitudes and behavior toward data sharing at one such
university, Iowa State University, at a time when the university was significantly increasing its support for formal sharing of research data. It finds that although sharing of research data through formal channels is limited, it is more common through informal channels, and that the effects of increased institutional support for formal data sharing appear relatively limited. Together these findings suggest that the benefits of increasing formal channels of data sharing may be limited and costly.
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JEL Classification: L38, I23. Length 57 pages. Original Release Date: September 21, 2023. Copyright 2023, The Author.
A dataset associated with this study is available at https://doi.org/10.25380/iastate.24187698.v1