Reputation instead of obligation: forging new policies to motivate academic data sharing
Author: | Fecher, B., Frisike S., Hebing, M., & Linek S. |
Published in: | The Impact Blog |
Year: | 2015 |
Type: | Other publications |
Despite strong support from funding agencies and policy makers academic data sharing sees hardly any adoption among researchers. Current policies that try to foster academic data sharing fail, as they try to either motivate researchers to share for the common good or force researchers to publish their data. Instead, Dr Sascha Friesike, Benedikt Fecher, Marcel Hebing, and Stephanie Linek argue that in order to tap into the vast potential that is attributed to academic data sharing we need to forge new policies that follow the guiding principle reputation instead of obligation.
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