DataONE:Open Research Output Early Adopters Study

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Abstract

Researchers are increasingly required to share data as a condition of funding, publishing, or both. Open access services enabling data sharing are emerging. This study evaluates opinions and motives of early users of the “Web 3.0” research output publishing and storage site “Figshare” (www.figshare.com).

In addition to demographic information, questions relate to use and opinions of the Web site, and of data sharing in general.

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Q1: What type of information do you upload to Figshare?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• Figures
• Tables
• Datasets
• Articles
• Methods
• Failed Experiments
• Other (please specify)
• None
• No Answer

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Survey Logic

If none, go to question 6

Q2: Is your information public or private?

• Public
• Private
• Some of each

Q3: How frequently do you upload materials?

• Daily
• About once a week
• About once a month
• A few times a year

Q4: Do you ever change or update what you have previously uploaded?

Possible Responses

• Yes
• No

Q5: Which of the following reasons led you to upload to Figshare?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• I want to be cited for my contributions
• I want my output to be preserved into the future
• Figshare gives my finished products a DOI
• I need a place to store my work
• Figshare allows me to store information that wouldn’t be available to others otherwise
• My institution or someone I work with suggested I store things here
• I uploaded data because a journal publisher required data deposit related to my article
• Storing my work on Figshare makes it easily discoverable
• Figshare is cool
• It’s free
• I’m experimenting to see what Figshare is about
• I don’t have a disciplinary repository to which I can submit my data
• I don’t have a local / institutional repository to which I can submit my data
• Figshare presents my data effectively
• Other (please specify)

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• Q5_WHA
• Q5_WHB
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Q6: What type of information do you download from Figshare that has been contributed by others?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• Figures
• Tables
• Datasets
• Articles
• Methods
• Failed Experiments
• Other (please specify)
• None
• No Answer

Column Headings

• Figures 2
• Tables 2
• Datasets 2
• Articles 2
• Methods 2
• Failed Experiments 2
• Other (please specify) 3
• None 2
• No Answer 3

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Survey Logic

If none, go to question 9

Q7: How many of the things contributed by others have you found useful?

Possible Responses

• All of them
• Most of them
• A few of them
• None of them

Q8: How did you select the items you downloaded?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• Name of researcher / submitter
• Institutional affiliation of researcher / submitter
• Presence / quality of metadata
• License
• Topic / discipline
• Other (please specify) 4
• No Answer 4

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• Q8_How_Select_Download_Other5

Survey Logic

[Go to question 10]

Q9: Why did you not download any information from Figshare that has been contributed by others?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• I didn't need it
• I don't trust the quality
• It was not my subject area
• There was not enough information of interest to me
• Other (please specify) 5
• No Answer 5

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• Q9_Why_Not_Download_Other4

Q10: How likely are you to use Figshare in the future?

Possible Responses

• Extremely likely
• Somewhat likely
• The odds are about 50-50
• Somewhat unlikely
• Extremely unlikely

Q11: Do you put your research data in multiple places?

Possible Responses

• Yes
• No

Survey Logic

 If yes, go to question 13

Q12: Where is your research data stored?

Possible Responses

• In figshare
• Only on my or my institution’s computer
• In a data repository
• Other (please specify)

Column Headings

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• Q12_W1
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• Q12_W5
• Q12_W6
• Q12_W7
• Q12_W8
• Q12_W9
• Q12_WA
• Q12_WB
• Q12_Where_Data_Stored_Other3

Survey Logic

[Go to question 14]

Q13: What percentage of your research data is stored in places other than Figshare?

Possible Responses

• 1% - 25%
• 26% – 50%
• 51% - 75%
• 76% - 99%
• 100%

Q14: What are the characteristics that you look for in a place to deposit your data?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• Discoverability
• Easy to use interface
• Easy to fill in metadata form
• Flexible licensing
• Ease of deposit process
• Trust in the repository managers
• Has been around for many years
• Reputation
• Other (please specify) 6
• No Answer 6

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• Q14_CB
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Q15: For the datasets that you didn’t upload to Figshare, why did you choose not to?

(check all that apply)

Possible Responses

• I put the data in a different place (please specify)
• Lack of funding
• Lack of standards
• People don’t need them
• There is insufficient time to make them available
• There is no place to put them
• They shouldn’t be available
• Sponsor doesn’t require it
• Don’t have the rights to make the data public
• I would lose control of the data
• I need to publish first
• I have insufficient skills
• Other (please specify)
• There are no datasets that I didn’t upload to figshare

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• I put the data in a different place (please specify)
• Lack of funding
• Lack of standards
• People don‚Äôt need them
• There is insufficient time to make them available
• There is no place to put them
• They shouldn‚Äôt be available
• Sponsor doesn‚Äôt require it
• Don‚Äôt have the rights to make the data public
• I would lose control of the data
• I need to publish first
• I have insufficient skills
• Other (please specify) 7
• There are no datasets that I didn‚Äôt upload to figshare
• No Answer 7

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Q16: In what year were you born?

Possible Responses

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Q17: What is your primary subject discipline?

Possible Responses

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• What is your primary subject discipline? 3
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• What is your primary subject discipline? 6
• What is your primary subject discipline? 7
• What is your primary subject discipline? 8
• What is your primary subject discipline? 9
• What is your primary subject discipline? 10
• What is your primary subject discipline? 11
• What is your primary subject discipline? 12
• What is your primary subject discipline? 13

Q18: Which one of the following best describes your primary work sector?

• Academic
• Government
• Commercial
• Non-profit
• Other (please specify)

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Q19: Which country is your primary place of employment?

Free Text

Survey Logic

If not United States of America, go to question 21

Q21: Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing.

Possible Responses

(This is an open ended question)

Column Headings

• Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing.
• Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing. 2
• Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing. 3
• Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing. 4
• Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing. 5
• Please share any additional thoughts about Figshare and/or data sharing. 6