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Benefits of Data Sharing

  • Sharing data can result in a higher citation count for the published article
  • Making data available to others ensures your research is truly reproducible
  • You get credit for all your research 

How should I share my data?

There are a variety of tools and resources available to share your research data.

Post data on a project website - Open Access, Broad dissemination - but requires regular maintenance and there's no control over who can access your data.

Submit to a data journal - Data will be associated with the published work - but depending on the publisher access may be restricted to those who subscribe to the journal.

Individual Data Requests - By making data available upon request you retain control over who has access to it - but it can be a time intensive method and may not be an acceptable method for your funder.

Deposit data in a repository - Whether it is a disciplinary, subject, general, or institutional data repository this can be a good method for making data freely available, complying with funder requirements, and requires no ongoing maintenance by you - but you cannot control who accesses data.