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What factors influence where researchers deposit their data? A survey of researcher submissions to data repositories

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dc.contributor.authorSwauger, Shea, author
dc.contributor.authorVision, Todd J., author
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Edinburgh, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:41:59Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:41:59Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn order to better understand the factors that most influence where researchers deposit their data when they have a choice, we collected survey data from researchers who deposited phylogenetic data in either the TreeBASE or Dryad data repositories. Respondents were asked to rank the relative importance of eight possible factors. We found that factors differed in importance for both TreeBASE and Dryad, and that the rankings differed subtly but significantly between TreeBASE and Dryad users. On average, TreeBASE users ranked the domain specialization of the repository highest, while Dryad users ranked as equal highest their trust in the persistence of the repository and the ease of its data submission process. Interestingly, respondents (particularly Dryad users) were strongly divided as to whether being directed to choose a particular repository by a journal policy or funding agency was among the most or least important factors. Some users reported depositing their data in multiple repositories and archiving their data voluntarily.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationThe International Journal of Digital Curation 10, no. 1 (2015): 68-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v10i1.289
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v10i1.289
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/89171
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofFaculty Publications
dc.rightsCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.
dc.rights.licenseThis article is open access and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectdata repository
dc.subjectdata archiving
dc.subjectdata management
dc.subjectDryad
dc.subjectphlyogeny
dc.subjectTreeBASE
dc.subjectuser preference
dc.titleWhat factors influence where researchers deposit their data? A survey of researcher submissions to data repositories
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