
Sharing, preservation and licensing: Data sharing - barriers
Not all data can or should be shared. Academic reputation and reward is built upon published papers which are in turn, based on data. Thus there may be pressure on researchers not to share their data, at least until they have published, for fear of ideas being appropriated.
The following are some of the perceived barriers to data sharing, with some suggested solutions.
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