Potential Dangers with Open Access Data Files in the Expanding Open Data Movement

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 298-305

  Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^a   Dobránszki, Judit ^b  

^a Miki cho Post Office   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Danger; Data sharing; Data theft; Honesty vs dishonesty; Open access; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946404917     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-015-9420-9     Document Type: Article

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