Making your research available for re-use

• Get credit for high quality research
• Increased understanding of your methods
• Allows work to be verified by others
• Recognition for contribution to research community
• Extend research beyond your discipline

• Making data and/or publications available may be a requirement of your funding body
• It may make your funding proposal more attractive when sharing data is not essential

• Sharing makes your data:
– Easier to find
– Easier to access
• Open data/publications lead to increased citations

• Starting point for a complementary study
• Test data for new software and algorithms
• Teaching purposes
• Contexts not currently envisaged
• Completely different fields

How?
• Remember you can share data at the end of a project
• Use repositories and data centres
– Choose open access or controlled access, depending on your data

How?
• Redact or embargo if there is good reason:
– Intended publication
– Patent protection
– Use of 3 rd party copyrighted material

Why?
• Reputation
• Impact
• Funding
• Re-use
How?
• Use repositories and data centres
– Choose open or controlled access
– Consider embargoes and redactions if necessary

Open Access Teaching Materials for Digital Preservation
Produced by Anna Collins (2012) for the JISCfunded PrePARe project
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