The PSA meeting also discussed whether the discipline needed better guidance on data sharing, and incorporating best practice in post-graduate courses was agreed to be beneficial; again, something that the UK Data Service can easily help with.
In summary I feel that extreme enforcement of analytic transparency may damage publishing of qualitative research, and that as it stands, especially if journals do decide to take a position that is overly penalising. The political science community would benefit from taking a positive supporting stance, encouraging data sharing through showing germany rcs data how it can be done well, and advocating the value of publishing one’s data as an output in its own right. This encouragement will likely mitigate against resistance, fear and confusion. I already observe senior academics in the UK who are scared of not meeting ESRC data policy requirements; the UK Data Service offers a supporting discussion to establish what and how data can realistically be shared. I would hope that by walking this supporting path, we can help to re-gain trust in scholarly communication.
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The embedded link lets users carry out a quick and easy search identifying research articles that have cited that particular dataset (the results will show research articles that have cited data accessed via UK Data Service). new feature as it allows us to see a direct link between the work we do making the data available and the research that’s produced. We’re also very hopeful that this will provide opportunities for researcher collaboration and also help to prevent duplication of research.
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