This Is AuburnAUrora

Show simple item record

Supporting the Proliferation of Data-Sharing Scholars in the Research Ecosystem


Metadata FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributorAli Krzton, alk0043@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorKrzton, Ali
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-08T18:19:58Z
dc.date.available2018-08-08T18:19:58Z
dc.date.created2018-07-30
dc.identifier10.7191/jeslib.2018.1145en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol7/iss2/6/en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11200/49220
dc.description.abstractLibrarians champion the value of openness in scholarship and have been powerful advocates for the sharing of research data. College and university administrators have recently joined in the push for data sharing due to funding mandates. However, the researchers who create and control the data usually determine whether and how data is shared, so it is worthwhile to look at what they are incentivized to do. The current scholarly publishing landscape plus the promotion and tenure process create a “prisoner’s dilemma” for researchers as they decide whether or not to share data, consistent with the observation that researchers in general are eager for others to share data but reluctant to do so themselves. If librarians encourage researchers to share data and promote openness without simultaneously addressing the academic incentive structure, those who are intrinsically motivated to share data will be selected against via the promotion and tenure process. This will cause those who are hostile to sharing to be disproportionately recruited into the senior ranks of academia. To mitigate the risk of this unintended consequence, librarians must advocate for a change in incentives alongside the call for greater openness. Highly-cited datasets must be given similar weight to highly-cited articles in promotion and tenure decisions in order for researchers to reap the rewards of their sharing. Librarians can help by facilitating data citation to track the impact of datasets and working to persuade higher administration of the value of rewarding data sharing in tenure and promotion.en_US
dc.format.extent4pen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Massachusetts Medical Schoolen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of eScience Librarianshipen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2161-3974en_US
dc.rightsCC-BYen_US
dc.subjectdata sharingen_US
dc.subjectprisoner's dilemmaen_US
dc.subjectdata citationen_US
dc.subjectpromotion and tenureen_US
dc.titleSupporting the Proliferation of Data-Sharing Scholars in the Research Ecosystemen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume7en_US
dc.citation.issue2en_US
dc.citation.spagee1145en_US
dc.description.statuspublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewNoen_US
dc.creator.alternateKrzton, Alicia

Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record