The State of Open Data 2017 report reveals that 79% of researchers have made their data openly available, primarily motivated by enhancing their profile and public benefit. A significant portion lacks understanding of data sharing mandates and Creative Commons licenses, and many still use physical media for data storage, leading to reported data loss. The report emphasizes the need for institutional education and support regarding data sharing practices.

1. The State of Open Data 2017

2. Step 1. Getting
the files on the
web

5. Some of team figshare’s beliefs
• Academic research outputs should be as open as possible, as closed as
necessary
• Academic research outputs should never be behind a paywall
• Academic research outputs should be human and machine readable/query-
able
• Academic infrastructure should be interchangeable
• Academic researchers should never have to put the same information into
multiple systems at the same institution
• Identifiers for everything

6. FAIR

7. https://data.4tu.nl/repository/uuid:5146dd06-
98e4-426c-9ae5-dc8fa65c549f
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KptHzDHIdB3s1v5m1mMwphcwXhOVWd
kRYdjEWW1dqrE/edit#gid=355072175

8. FAIR
FA

9. The State of Open Data

10. The State of Open Data 2016
Treadway, Jon; Hahnel, Mark; Leonelli, Sabina; Penny, Dan; Groenewegen, David; Miyairi, Nobuko; Hayashi, Kazuhiro; O'Donnell, Daniel; Science, Digital; Hook, Daniel (2016): The State of Open Data Report. figshare.
https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4036398.v1

11. 39 citations
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1092508.v6

12. Public Funder
Jean-Claude Burgelman, European Commission
Private Funder
Robert Kiley & David Carr, Wellcome Trust
Repository Space
Mark Hahnel, Figshare
University
Dale Peters, University of Cape Town
Publisher
Grace Baynes, Springer Nature
2359 responses
The State of Open Data 2017

13. Data Visualization
tinyurl.com/sood2017

14. Researchers awareness of Open Data

15. What motivates
researchers to
share the data?

16. Status
• Majority (79%) of researchers have made data openly available
• Majority (90%) of researchers support a national open data mandate
Incentives
• Researchers are most motivated to share data by increasing their profile (24%) and doing things
for the public benefit (20%), transparency and re-use (11%) over publisher (8%) and funder (8%)
mandates.
• 77% of researchers value a data citation as much as an article citation (validating last year’s
findings)
• 92% of researchers motivated to share their data if it leads to citation
Other Takeaways

17. Education
• Majority of researchers think they don’t have a publisher, funder or institutional mandate to share
data
• Majority of researchers think they own their data
• Majority of researchers don’t understand creative commons licenses
• Only approx 25% of researchers look to their library for advice on data sharing
• Majority of researchers still using physical media to store and archive their data
• 83% of reported data loss happened as a result of using physical media
Other Takeaways

19. Step 2.
Institutional
education as a
priority?

20. tinyurl.com/figcasestudies

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