When research data is shared freely

Phys.org  December 21, 2022
In recent years, Norwegian researchers have increasingly published their research in open access journals. Some go one step further and share their data. The Research Council has followed the global open access trend and given Norwegian researchers a little nudge: open publishing, in some form or other, is a prerequisite for project funding, unless the researchers have good reasons for not doing it. In 2017, the Research Council also decided that researchers who received support from them must consider producing a data management plan. This should, among other things, show whether the data will be shared and, if so, how. The Research Council bases its guidelines on the international FAIR principles, which say that data must be: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. In Norway, the proportion of research being published openly has increased considerably in the past ten years to around 75%… read more.