Collaboration essential to meet open data challenges, says new report - Digital Science

"A new report – part of The State of Open Data series – provides real-world insights into how the research community is responding to the challenges of data sharing, including support needed for researchers and the importance of building a stronger collaborative approach to open data and research.

From theory to practice: Case studies and commentary from libraries, publishers, funders and industry has been published by Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, following on from the release of their State of Open Data Report 2023 and its key recommendations. 

From theory to practice is the first time in the nine-year history of The State of Open Data that a supplementary publication has expanded upon the main report’s years of survey results about open data, involving tens of thousands of researchers globally.

Each case study and commentary is told from the perspective of a research stakeholder group:

• Funding bodies: The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: meeting community needs for FAIR data sharing and discovery
• Scholarly Publishers: Operationalize data policies through collaborative approaches – the momentum is now
• University Libraries: One size does not fit all: an investigation into how institutional libraries are tailoring support to their researchers’ needs
• Industry: How Open Pharma supports responsible data sharing for pharma research publications...."