Open data "on edge of being a global standard" - Research Information

"New analysis suggests that open data practice is now on the edge of becoming a standard, recognised and supported scholarly output, globally.

As part of the latest in the State of Open Data series, produced by partners Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, direct author-sharing practices have been analysed from a funder, country and institutional level. The resulting data shows key trends driving successful open sharing and the growth of global adoption, while also enabling recommendations to be drawn to help bridge the remaining gaps between policy and practice.

The findings have been published in The State of Open Data 2024 special report: Bridging policy and practice in data sharing.

Report co-author Mark Hahnel, VP of Open Research at Digital Science and Founder of Figshare, said: “Open research is now officially an inevitability. If we look at open research in general and closed vs open publishing, there is now more open publishing than closed. We’re now in a place where we consistently see around 2 million datasets being published every year; this is the same amount of articles that we saw published annually in the year 2000. This report provides a valuable insight into what is really driving this data sharing and enables us, as a community, to see what is working and what we need to do more of to both sustain these figures and increase them.” ..."