23 October 2019
Digital Science launched a report on the state of open data to celebrate open access week. The report is an assessment of the attitudes and experiences of researchers currently working with open data.
The fourth in the series, it is now the longest running longitudinal study on the subject, and includes survey results from 8,500 participants plus a collection of articles from global industry experts.
Findings include:
- the majority of researchers want funding withheld and penalties for a lack of data sharing
- 79% were supportive overall of a national mandate for making primary research openly available
- 67% think that funders should withhold funding from, or penalise in other ways, researchers who do not share their data if the funder has mandated that they do so
The report, The State of Open Data 2019, is available on Figshare.