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Researchers Lack Support Needed to Share Data
Researchers say they don't receive sufficient recognition for openly sharing their data.
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Researchers in the U.S. and numerous other countries are not getting the support they need to share their data openly, according to a new report.
Almost three-quarters of the researchers say they've never received support with planning, managing, or sharing their research data, according to the State of Open Data Report 2023 survey, a collaboration between Digital Science, Figshare, and publisher Springer Nature.
Insufficient support for open data sharing was one of the key takeaways from the report, which surveyed more than 6,000 researchers across a wide spectrum of fields.
The research community "can clearly see the roles we all need to play in driving accessible research forwards and harnessing the power of emerging technologies to move towards greater open science," said Harsh Jegadeesan, chief publishing officer of Springer Nature, in a statement. "Ensuring easy and open access to all parts of research supports accessibility, usability, and reusability — and this is key in helping to ensure research can be built upon and gets into the hands of those that can effect change to tackle the world's most challenging issues."
The survey also asked researchers about using generative artificial intelligence for data collection, processing, and metadata creation. Though the majority had heard of it, most had not used it.
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