Montague-Hellen, B. orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-9013 and Montague-Hellen, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-9013
(2023)
Publishers, funders and institutions: who is supporting UKRI-funded researchers to share data?
Insights, 36.
4.
ISSN 2048-7754
Abstract
Researchers are increasingly being asked by funders, publishers and their institutions to share research data alongside written publications, and to include data availability statements to support their readers in finding this data. In the UK, UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) is one of the largest funding bodies and has had data-sharing policies for several years. This article investigates the reasons why a researcher may or may not share their data and assesses whether funders, publishers and institutions are supporting data-sharing behaviour through their policies and actions. A survey with 166 responses gave an indicative assessment of researcher opinions around data sharing, and a corpus of 3,277 journal articles retrieved from four UK institutions was analysed using multivariate logistic regression models to provide empirical evidence as to researcher behaviour around data sharing. The regression models provide insight into how this is affected by the funder, institution and publisher of the research. This study identifies that those publishers and funders who give clear guidance in their policies as to which data should be shared, and where this data should be shared, are most likely to encourage good practice in researchers.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Beth Montague-Hellen and Kate Montague-Hellen. 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 and distribution provided the original author and source are credited. |
Keywords: | open research; open data; data availability statements; UKRI; policy; publishers |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2024 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2024 23:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1629/uksg.602 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215258 |