Sharing Data with Social Scientists at Teaching Universities

研究资助机构现在坚持要求研究人员向其他人提供在他们的支持下开发的研究数据。其目标是鼓励科学的公开和诚信，确保研究经费的有效使用，并提供培训资源。该项目通过创建一个实地实验来检查数据共享行为，在该实验中，在一个大型和多样化的教学大学中请求、使用和存档共享数据。该项目调查了社会科学家在被要求提供数据时的反应，哪些问题（如道德、态度、财务）阻碍了数据共享，以及如何缓解这些问题；以及数据共享对学生和教师的兴趣、开放性和研究活动的影响，这些学生和教师请求和使用数据，并参加作为项目一部分的研讨会。该项目将产生关于数据共享和非共享行为的研究结果，关于数据共享的用途、好处、问题和教学的研究结果，特别是在以教学为主的大学，以及大学支持数据共享的模式。项目结果将对寻求提高数据共享有效性的科学政策制定者、希望在教学研究价值和技能中使用共享数据的教师、对于那些希望提高教师和学生数据使用技能的大学服务和行政人员。这项研究源于一个计划阶段的成功完成，该阶段的结果是在1989年美国科学促进会年会上举行了一次关于数据共享的会议，在内部审查委员会和其他地方发表了几篇文章，并在审查中收集了一些即将出版的论文。联合首席研究员都是非常合格的；制度支持非常好；实地研究计划是好的，应该提供关于数据共享的机会和限制的丰富信息。结果将广泛传播，并与研究人员和教育决策者相关。建议使用Support。

Research funding agencies are now insisting that investigators make research data developed with their support accessible to others. The goals are to encourage openness and integrity in science, to ensure efficient use of research funds, and to provide training resources. This project examines data sharing behavior by creating a field experiment in which shared data are requested, used, and archived in a large and divrse teaching university. The project investigates how social scientists respond when asked for their data, what problems (e.g., ethical, attitudinal, financial) inhibit data sharing and how these may be mitigated; and what impact data sharing has on the interests, openness, and research activity of students and faculty who request and use data, and attend the workshops that are part of the project. The project will produce findings on data sharing and non-sharing behavior, findings on the uses, benefits, problems and teaching of data-sharing, particularly in primarily teaching universities, and models for university support for data sharing. Project results will be useful to science policy makers who seek to improve the effectiveness of data sharing, to faculty who want to use shared data in teaching research values and skills, and to university service and administrative staff who want to improve faculty and student skills in data use. This study grows out of the successful completion of a planning phase, which resulted in a session on data sharing at the AAAS annual meeting in 1989, in several articles published in IRB and elsewhere, and in a collection of papers under review for publication. Co-principal investigators are very well-qualified; institutional support is very good; the field research plans are good and should provide rich information about opportunities for and constraints on data sharing. Results will be widely disseminated and relevant to both researchers and educational policymakers. Support is recommended.