Tori DeAngelis, Data sharing: a different animal, APA Monitor on Psychology, February 2004. On OA to data in psychology, a disscussion meant to accompany a companion piece by DeAngelis that I blogged the other day. Mary Bullock is the associate director for science at the American Psychological Association. She thinks there are three reasons why open data sharing is not used as widely in psychology as it is in the natural sciences. "That said, the potential benefits of large-scale data sharing far outweigh the costs, Bullock believes. Pluses include increasing the power and generalizability of psychological findings by increasing effective sample sizes, getting more value from costly research investments and encouraging research across investigators and institutions." To help members learn the ropes, the APA will (1) offer training sessions "to help researchers learn secondary analysis of large databases" and (2) host a web page on data archiving and data sharing in psychology. (Thanks to Howard Kurtzman.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/04/2004 01:33:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
