Data re-use

Potential re-use of research data is one of important aspects of long-term curation. Access to data is predefined by given licences.

Conditions of use

Conditions of use and access categories depend on the license of the deposited study. Data can be accessible with registration or without it. Access depends on user categories and purposes of use.

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Licensing

Different licenses are available for sharing data and defining terms of use.

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Data sharing

"Data sharing is the practice of making data used for scholarly research available to other investigators. Replication has a long history in science. Many funding agencies, institutions, and publication venues have policies regarding data sharing because transparency and openness are considered by many to be part of the scientific method". (Wikipedia, 2016)

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Data citation

“Citing data supports the discovery and reuse of data, leading to better science through the validation of results” according to the special interest group on citation (IASSIST). To enable citing publications and data sets, data sets should have persistent identifiers. Many repositories provide identifiers that enable citation.

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Secondary analyses

"Secondary analysis involves the use of existing data, collected for the purposes of a prior study, in order to pursue a research interest which is distinct from that of the original work; this may be a new research question or an alternative perspective on the original question" (Hinds, Vogel and Clarke-Steffen 1997, Szabo and Strang 1997).

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