The State of Open Data 2021

Analysis of shared research data in Spanish scientific papers about COVID‐19: A first approach

“…In the survey conducted by RoRI (Research of Research Institute) of authors of COVID-19 preprints, 47% of the respondents stated that they had made the data underlying their research publicly available; another 22% of the respondents stated that they had indicated in their preprint that data is available on request (Waltman et al, 2021). The last State of Open Data 2021 report says that about a third of the respondents participating in the survey for this annual report indicated that they have reused openly accessible data more during the pandemic than before (Digital Science et al, 2021). With this perspective, the following research questions arises: Change to: How many research papers published by Spanish researchers about COVID-19, have also shared their research data?…”

Supporting Open Science with frictionless publication workflows: The Tree of Life project at Wellcome Open Research

“…For example, 70.4% of surveyed researchers believed that sharing research data openly should be considered as an important or very important factor in promotion decisions, but only 26.6% of institutional policies designate it to be so [10]. In parallel, 65% of surveyed researchers have stated that they have never received credit (for example in the form of a citation) because they had shared their data openly [11]. Initiatives such as the UKRN (UK Reproducibility Network)'s five-year programme of work with its consortium of institutional members [12], and the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)'s announcement of their full commitment to Open Science demonstrate the ways that institutions can address the new challenges that Open Science presents [13].…”

Enhancing data mobilisation through a centralised data repository for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Providing the resources to promote an ecosystem-based management framework.

“…The basic tenets of data mobilisation; accessibility, discovery, re-use, preservation, and sharing of data resources, are becoming increasingly valued elements of the scientific method across the natural sciences (Tenopir et al, 2011) facilitating efficient integration of these resources and enhancing their legitimacy (Gorospe et al, 2016). This shift is supported by the reported upward trend of familiarity among researchers of principles such as Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable Data (FAIR, Wilkinson et al, 2016) in the State of Open Data reports (Digital Science et al, 2021) as well as the growth of online repositories, e.g., Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB), Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN), and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN). Alongside an increasing online presence, the use of persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) has emerged as a method for citing datasets, creating an incentive to publish data that parallels established academic norms for scientific publications (Data Citation Synthesis Group, 2014).…”

“…Exacerbating technological barriers, sociological barriers to data mobilisation are also prominent in the minds of data creators and owners. Concerns regarding privacy, ownership, poor interpretation and misuse, and failure to stay abreast of rapid technological advances in ecoinformatics, are often identified as challenges to effective knowledge exchange (e.g., Cvitanovic et al, 2015;Digital Science et al, 2021;Reichman et al, 2011;Tenopir et al, 2015), and these factors are often synergistic or compounding in nature. These aspects require advocacy and building confidence in the cataloguing infrastructure and understanding them can greatly enhance the utility of knowledge generated (Nguyen et al, 2018).…”