TRENDS IN DATA SHARINGCathy GiffiDirector, Strategic Market AnalysisJuly 7, 2015

About Me

Catherine (Cathy) Giffi is Director, Strategic Market Analysis, for Wiley.

Her team of talented analysts are charged with producing groundbreaking research on issues impacting librarians, societies, and researchers, including Open Access, Researcher Workflow, Data Sharing, Society Member Benefits, and Reviewer Benefits.

She holds a Masters degree in Publishing from NYU and, in addition to Wiley, has led large scale research projects for the Sundance Film Festival and VOGUE magazine.

SHARING DATA IS NOTHING NEW.

Data Sharing Is Older Than Wiley

NIH Recognizes Importance of Sharing

Accessed April 17, 2015

NSF Mandates Data Management Plans

Accessed April 17, 2015

Journal Data Archiving Policy

WILEY RESEARCHER DATA SHARING SURVEYMarch 2014

Survey Responses By the Numbers

Our objective was to establish a baseline view of data sharing

practices, attitudes, and motivations globally, with

participation from researchers in every scholarly field.

12% of respondents were from the chemistry community.

• 90,000 researchers invited to participate.

• 3,000 responses recorded.

• 203 fields of study were recorded.

• 85 countries participated.

• 14 days to participate.

Key Findings Most researchers are sharing their data.

Data shared is typically <10 GB.

The most common type of data that is being shared is flat, tabular data (.csv, .txt, .xl)

Data is usually “archived” on hard drives.

Those not sharing have a variety of reasons.

Where Did You Make Your Data Publicly Available?

• Supplemental material (67%)• At a conference (57%)• Informal paths/by request (42%)• Personal, institutional, or project webpage (37%)• Institutional data repository (26%)• Discipline-specific data repository (19%)• General purpose data repository, e.g. Dryad,

figshare (6%)• Other (5%)

Chemists are less likely to share via an institutional data repository (23%), discipline-specific repository (16%), or via informal request (email, direct communication), and more likely to present snapshots of data at conferences (70%) and via supplemental material (73%).

Of those surveyed, 66% have made data publicly available (ever).

Within the chemistry community, 68% have made data publicly available.

Why Researchers Do Not Share Data IP or confidentiality issues (83%)

Research might be “scooped” (70%)

Concerns about misinterpretation (32%)

Insufficient time/resources (32%)No mandate from Funder/Institution (13%)Unsure how, where to share (8%)

The chemistry community followed the same general trend as the larger pool of respondents.

Variation by Field of Research

Life Science*

• Concerns that their research will be scooped (56%)

• Intellectual property or confidentiality issues (54%)

• Concerns about misinterpretation or misuse (43%)

Health Science

• Intellectual property or confidentiality issues (68%)

• Ethical concerns (36%)• Concerns about

misinterpretation or misuse (36%)

*Most likely to share data

Variation by Field of Research

Physical Science

• Intellectual property or confidentiality issues (47%)

• No funder or institutional require (29%)

• Concerns that their research will be scooped (27%)

Social Science & Humanities*

• Intellectual property or confidentiality issues (47%)

• Concerns about being scooped (30%)

• No funder or institutional requirement (28%)

*Least likely to share data

Variation by Country

DATA SHARING March 2014 to Present

Echoes of Our Findings“[Researchers] cite lack of time, money and universally

agreed upon standards, as well as technical barriers, as the main reasons they hold data back. Of course, there are

psychological and cultural reasons, too: a sense of ownership over such a hard-won resource and a fear of

scrutiny and of being “scooped.”

Neurodata Without BordersAugust 2014

Echoes of Our Findings“Twenty potential barriers were identified

and classified in six categories:Technical, Motivational, Economic,

Political, Legal, Ethical.”

BMC Public HealthNovember 2014

Wiley Partnership With FigshareTo support authors who wish to openly share their data,

Wiley have embarked on a partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication.

The new service is being piloted with a limited number of titles and will be rolled out over the new few months along with new data citation and data sharing policies.

The net result will be that more data will be able to be accessed, shared and reproduced without cost as a consequence of authors publishing articles with Wiley.

Takeaways

• Sharing data is crucial for the advancement of science.

• Recognizing the barriers to sharing is important.

• Some barriers can be more easily overcome.

• Others will take the support of the scholarly community.

For More Information

To Share or Not to Share, That is the Research Data QuestionScholarly Kitchen

How and Why Researchers Share Data, and Why They Don’tExchanges

Cathy GiffiDirector, Strategic Market Analysis, Wileycgiffi@wiley.com

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