A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing.

ABSTRACT: Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. In this study, we tested the ability to recover data collected under a particular funder-imposed requirement of public availability. We assessed overall data recovery success, tested whether characteristics of the data or data creator were indicators of recovery success, and identified hurdles to data recovery. Overall the majority of data were not recovered (26% recovery of 315 data projects), a similar result to journal-driven efforts to recover data. Field of research was the most important indicator of recovery success, but neither home agency sector nor age of data were determinants of recovery. While we did not find a relationship between recovery of d

SUBMITTER: Couture JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034829 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature