[open-science] Brief persuasive case for data sharing?

Fri Sep 3 21:11:38 UTC 2010

Thanks Dorothea!

That study was also published in PLoS ONE, in case you prefer a
non-dissertation citation:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

Similar, but earlier and with a way cooler title, is Gleditsch and
Strand's "Posting Your Data: Will You Be Scooped or Will You Be Famous?"
http://www.prio.no/Research-and-Publications/Publication/?oid=55406

Chris, another argument I've often heard: publicly archive your data so that
you can find it again later, yourself :)

There's also lots to be said about "being the change you want to
see," supplemented with stats on the frequency and implications of data
withholding, etc.  Let me know if you want refs, or you can brave a mongo
list of refs on data sharing/withholding at
Mendeley<http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/collections/3498871/Data-sharing-and-withholding/>.
 I have many relevant papers tagged with "motivation" or similar.

You might also find something useful in the latter part of these
presentations? (1<http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/why-study-data-sharing-why-share-your-data>,
2<http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/measuring-the-adoption-of-open-science-presentation>
)

Let me know if I can be of more help....

Heather

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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Dorothea Salo <dorothea.salo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Maybe try this:
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> “Publicly available data was significantly (p=0.006) associated with a
> 69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor,
> date of publication, and author country of origin.” Piwowar, Heather.
> “Foundational studies for measuring the impact, prevalence, and
> patterns of publicly sharing biomedical research data.” Dissertation,
> University of Pittsburgh, 2010.
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> I just popped it into a slideshow of mine. I've also seen people use
> the recent NYT story about data-sharing and Alzheimer's, though it's
> not quite a paradigm case because the data there weren't fully open.
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> Dorothea
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