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Woods, H.B. orcid.org/0000-0002-0653-9803 and Pinfield, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-764X (2022) Incentivising research data sharing: a scoping review [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 6. 355. ISSN 2398-502X
Abstract
Background: Numerous mechanisms exist to incentivise researchers to share their data. This scoping review aims to identify and summarise evidence of the efficacy of different interventions to promote open data practices and provide an overview of current research.
Methods: This scoping review is based on data identified from Web of Science and LISTA, limited from 2016 to 2021. A total of 1128 papers were screened, with 38 items being included. Items were selected if they focused on designing or evaluating an intervention or presenting an initiative to incentivise sharing. Items comprised a mixture of research papers, opinion pieces and descriptive articles.
Results: Seven major themes in the literature were identified: publisher/journal data sharing policies, metrics, software solutions, research data sharing agreements in general, open science ‘badges’, funder mandates, and initiatives.
Conclusions: A number of key messages for data sharing include: the need to build on existing cultures and practices, meeting people where they are and tailoring interventions to support them; the importance of publicising and explaining the policy/service widely; the need to have disciplinary data champions to model good practice and drive cultural change; the requirement to resource interventions properly; and the imperative to provide robust technical infrastructure and protocols, such as labelling of data sets, use of DOIs, data standards and use of data repositories.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Woods HB and Pinfield S. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | open data; data sharing; open science; research data; scoping review |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 May 2022 15:22 |
Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2024 12:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | F1000Research |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17286.2 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187079 |
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