Sowing the seed: Incentives and Motivations for Sharing Research Data, a researcher's perspective
This qualitative study, commissioned by Knowledge Exchange, has gathered evidence, examples and opinions on current and future incentives for research data sharing from the researchers’ point of view, in order to provide recommendations for policy and practice development on incentivising data access and re-use.
Research with five research teams, with an established data sharing culture, spanning various academic disciplines, in five European countries, indicates that important motivations for researchers to share their data include: when science directly drives the need for data sharing; when data sharing increases the visibility of the researcher; the cultural norms with regards to data sharing that exist within a research group, community or discipline; and a framework of policies, infrastructure and data services as external drivers.
Incentives and motivations ask for development of a data infrastructure with rich context where research data, papers and other outputs or resources are jointly available within a single data resource, as well as data sharing training to become part of standard research methods training. Different types of data sharing and research disciplines need to be acknowledged. This study helps stakeholders to understand and act upon the recommendations.
This project was managed at the UK Data Archive by the principal investigators Veerle Van den Eynden and Libby Bishop. All data are available via the UK Data Service.
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