Data sharing by scientists: Practices and perceptions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Tenopir, Carol ^a   Allard, Suzie ^a   Douglass, Kimberly ^a   Aydinoglu, Arsev Umur ^a   Wu, Lei ^a   Read, Eleanor ^b   Manoff, Maribeth ^b   Frame, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Libraries   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYBERNETICS; FEMALE; FUNDING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONALISM; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; COOPERATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RESEARCH;

EID: 79959648792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021101     Document Type: Article

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