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Making your research
available for re-use
Why? Reputation
• 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
Why? Funding
• 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
Why? Impact
• Sharing makes your
data:
– Easier to find
– Easier to access
• Open
data/publications
lead to increased
citations
Why? Reuse
• 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 3rd party copyrighted material
Share it
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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