Promoting data sharing

• Verfasst von: Wendelborn, Christian [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Anger, Michael [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schickhardt, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Promoting data sharing
• Titelzusatz: the moral obligations of public funding agencies
• Verf.angabe: Christian Wendelborn, Michael Anger, Christoph Schickhardt
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 6 August 2024
• Umfang: 31 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 28.04.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Science and engineering ethics
• Ort Quelle: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1995
• Jahr Quelle: 2024
• Band/Heft Quelle: 30(2024), 4, Artikel-ID 35, Seite 1-31
• ISSN Quelle: 1471-5546
• DOI: doi:10.1007/s11948-024-00491-3
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Data sharing
• Sach-SW: Epistemic integrity
• Sach-SW: Funding agencies
• Sach-SW: Moral obligations
• Sach-SW: Research integrity
• Sach-SW: Scientific freedom
• Sach-SW: Scientific progress
• Sach-SW: Social value
• K10plus-PPN: 1923724789

Abstract

Sharing research data has great potential to benefit science and society. However, data sharing is still not common practice. Since public research funding agencies have a particular impact on research and researchers, the question arises: Are public funding agencies morally obligated to promote data sharing? We argue from a research ethics perspective that public funding agencies have several pro tanto obligations requiring them to promote data sharing. However, there are also pro tanto obligations that speak against promoting data sharing in general as well as with regard to particular instruments of such promotion. We examine and weigh these obligations and conclude that all things considered funders ought to promote the sharing of data. Even the instrument of mandatory data sharing policies can be justified under certain conditions.