Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but Not Practised by Patrick Andreoli Versbach, Frank Mueller-Langer :: SSRN

peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-02-27

Summary:

Use the link to access the full text article posted to SSRN.  The abstract reads as follows: "We provide evidence for the status quo in economics with respect to data sharing using a unique data set with 488 hand-collected observations randomly taken from researchers' academic webpages. Out of the sample, 435 researchers (89.14%) neither have a data&code section nor indicate whether and where their data is available. We find that 8.81% of researchers share some of their data whereas only 2.05% fully share. We run an ordered probit regression to relate the decision of researchers to share to their observable characteristics. We find that three predictors are positive and significant across specifications: being full professor, working at a higher-ranked institution and personal attitudes towards sharing as indicated by sharing other material such as lecture slides."

Link:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2224146

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.open_science oa.attitudes oa.prestige oa.studies oa.ssrn oa.economics oa.negative oa.ssh

Date tagged:

02/27/2013, 19:23

Date published:

02/27/2013, 12:39