A Study on the Perceptions of University Researchers on Data Management and Sharing

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate data management practices of university researchers in Korea, as well as their experiences and perceptions of data sharing and reuse. For this purpose, it performed semi-structured interviews of 13 researchers who agreed to participate in interviews followed by a survey conducted prior to this study. The interview participants created or collected research data with various types and formats, and only a few conducted data documentation while they recognized its significance. The majority of participants perceived the period that data would be useful as the period that data can be employed for publications. However, most participants wanted to preserve data beyond the period that data would be considered useful and it indicates they have no small need for data storage and preservation. Participants usually shared data with those whom they have known, such as a personal research group or a research team. While some completely agree with the principle that publicly-funded data should be open to the public, others partially agreed or disagreed with it. Most participants were concerned about being scooped, plagiarism, and maintaining the first right to publish and incentives to mitigate the concerns would be necessary.

Library service design based on the needs of chemistry research data management and sharing survey

“…But in realities researchers not only have different attitudes and expectancies to manage and share research data (Tenopir et al, 2011;Carlson and Stowell-Bracke, 2013;Huang et al, 2012;Hall, 2013), but also meet many challenges in management data especially for different disciplinary of small science (Borgman, 2012;Borgman et al, 2007;Gray et al, 2005). Therefore some studies are conducted survey in the current state and needs of research data management and sharing (Peters and Dryden, 2011;Anderson et al, 2007;Carlson, 2012), others are increasing engaged in understanding practices and developing new services to meet research data management requirement, particularly within academic library (Bardyn et al, 2012;Kim, 2015;Williams, 2013).…”