Title | Biomedical Data Sharing and Reuse: Attitudes and Practices of Clinical and Scientific Research Staff |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Federer, L., Lu Y-L., Joubert D., Welsh J., & Brandys B. |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 6 |
Date Published | 2015/// |
Keywords | sg_data_sharing, sg_data_survey |
Abstract | Significant efforts are underway within the biomedical research community to encourage sharing and reuse of research data in order to enhance research reproducibility and enable scientific discovery. While some technological challenges do exist, many of the barriers to sharing and reuse are social in nature, arising from researchers’ concerns about and attitudes toward sharing their data. In addition, clinical and basic science researchers face their own unique sets of challenges to sharing data within their communities. This study investigates these differences in experiences with and perceptions about sharing data, as well as barriers to sharing among clinical and basic science researchers.Clinical and basic science researchers in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health were surveyed about their attitudes toward and experiences with sharing and reusing research data. Of 190 respondents to the survey, the 135 respondents who identified themselves as clinical or basic science researchers were included in this analysis. Odds ratio and Fisher’s exact tests were the primary methods to examine potential relationships between variables. Worst-case scenario sensitivity tests were conducted when necessary |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129506 |