If We Share Data, Will Anyone Use Them? Data Sharing and Reuse in the Long Tail of Science and Technology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wallis, Jillian C ^a   Rolando, Elizabeth ^a   Borgman, Christine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EMBEDDED NETWORK SENSING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; TECHNOLOGY;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOTIVATION; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84880738567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067332     Document Type: Article

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