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Qualitative Data Sharing: Data Repositories and Academic Libraries as Key Partners in Addressing Challenges.

ABSTRACT: Data sharing is increasingly perceived to be beneficial to knowledge production, and is therefore increasingly required by federal funding agencies, private funders, and journals. As qualitative researchers are faced with new expectations to share their data, data repositories and academic libraries are working to address the specific challenges of qualitative research data. This paper describes how data repositories and academic libraries can partner with researchers to support three challenges associated with qualitative data sharing: (1) obtaining informed consent from participants for data sharing and scholarly reuse; (2) ensuring that qualitative data are legally and ethically shared; and (3) sharing data that cannot be deidentified. This paper also describes three continuing challenges of qualitative data sharing that data repositories and academic libraries cannot specifically address-research using qualitative big data, copyright concerns, and risk of decontextualization. While data repositories and academic libraries can't provide easy solutions to these three continuing challenges, they can partner with researchers and connect them with other relevant specialists to examine these challenges. Ultimately, this paper suggests that data repositories and academic libraries can help researchers address some of the challenges associated with ethical and lawful qualitative data sharing.

SUBMITTER: Mannheimer S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6830543 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Qualitative Data Sharing: Data Repositories and Academic Libraries as Key Partners in Addressing Challenges.

Mannheimer Sara S Pienta Amy A Kirilova Dessislava D Elman Colin C Wutich Amber A

The American behavioral scientist 20180628 5

Data sharing is increasingly perceived to be beneficial to knowledge production, and is therefore increasingly required by federal funding agencies, private funders, and journals. As qualitative researchers are faced with new expectations to share their data, data repositories and academic libraries are working to address the specific challenges of qualitative research data. This paper describes how data repositories and academic libraries can partner with researchers to support three challenges ...[more]

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