Why academics under-share research data: A social relational theory

IF 2.8 2区 管理学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Janice Bially Mattern, Joseph Kohlburn, Heather Moulaison-Sandy
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Abstract

Despite their professed enthusiasm for open science, faculty researchers have been documented as not freely sharing their data; instead, if sharing data at all, they take a minimal approach. A robust research agenda in LIS has documented the data under-sharing practices in which they engage, and the motivations they profess. Using theoretical frameworks from sociology to complement research in LIS, this article examines the broader context in which researchers are situated, theorizing the social relational dynamics in academia that influence faculty decisions and practices relating to data sharing. We advance a theory that suggests that the academy has entered a period of transition, and faculty resistance to data sharing through foot-dragging is one response to shifting power dynamics. If the theory is borne out empirically, proponents of open access will need to find a way to encourage open academic research practices without undermining the social value of academic researchers.

为什么学者们很少分享研究数据?社会关系理论
尽管教职员工自称热衷于开放科学,但有资料表明,他们并不自由共享数据;相反,即使共享数据,他们也是采取最低限度的方法。在图书情报学领域,一个强有力的研究议程已经记录了他们所从事的数据未充分共享的实践,以及他们所宣称的动机。本文利用社会学的理论框架来补充 LIS 的研究,研究了研究人员所处的更广泛的环境,从理论上探讨了学术界的社会关系动态,这些动态影响着教师们与数据共享相关的决策和实践。我们提出的理论认为,学术界已进入转型期,而教师通过拖延来抵制数据共享是对权力动态变化的一种回应。如果该理论得到实证证实,那么开放存取的支持者就需要找到一种既能鼓励开放学术研究实践,又不损害学术研究人员社会价值的方法。
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8.30
自引率
8.60%
发文量
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is a leading international forum for peer-reviewed research in information science. For more than half a century, JASIST has provided intellectual leadership by publishing original research that focuses on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes. The Journal welcomes rigorous work of an empirical, experimental, ethnographic, conceptual, historical, socio-technical, policy-analytic, or critical-theoretical nature. JASIST also commissions in-depth review articles (“Advances in Information Science”) and reviews of print and other media.
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