DataONE:Resources/Useful excerpts

A few useful excerpts from published papers:

By maintaining a collection of data, the research becomes more visible and may enhance future funding and collaborative opportunities, as well as attracting future staff and students. The promotional potential of data sharing is not restricted to higher education. Casey (2003) discusses the benefits of making biodiversity data available to the public. This included a variety of data about organisms, much of which is held in museums and botanical gardens. Casey cites an example of the increased number of enquiries received by one museum (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in the USA). In the first year of providing public access to data, the website fulfilled nearly 42,000 specimen queries compared with 95 queries dealt with manually the staff the previous year.
 * Fry, J and Lockyer, S and Oppenheim, C and Houghton, J and Rasmussen, B (2009) Identifying benefits arising from the curation and open sharing of research data produced by UK Higher Education and research institutes. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished) http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/279/

as soon as results of a study are published, authors have a conflict of interest, and are not well placed to judge the suitability of third- party analyses of the data.
 * Reidpath DD, & Allotey P. (2001). Data sharing in medical research: an empirical investigation. Bioethics; 15(2):125-34 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11697377