The Effects of Attitudes Toward Access to Data, Perceived Risk, and Funding Sources on Data Sharing Practices

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to test how attitudes about data sharing, its associated risks and sources of funding, affect data sharing behavior among scientists around the world. It does so by conducting a multinational survey on a volunteer sample of scientists (N=1,015). The population under study included research scientists, academics, and science faculty from academic institutions, research organizations, federal agencies (e.g., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA, NCEAS, etc.), and non-profit organizations, from hard sciences (e.g., atmospheric science, biology, geology, hydrology, etc.), social sciences, humanities, and law. The preliminary analysis shows that participants came from six continents (North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand), and that attitudes towards access to data and source of funding had statistically significant influence on data sharing practices, while perceived risk was not found to significantly impact our dependent variable.

Authors

• Ivanka Pjesivac, University of Georgia

• Elizabeth Dortch Dalton, U of Tennessee

• Carol Tenopir, U of Tennessee