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Conclusions and Recommendations
Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 24-32
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The National Academy of Sciences announced in March 1982 He appointment of a broadly based panel of senior policy makers and researchers to examine the relationship between university research and national security in light of the growing concern that foreign nations are gaining military advantages from American research. The panel's September 1982 report recommended guidelines that would allow government-funded, academically based scientific research to be performed without restriction, except for research in narrowly defined areas of technologies Hat could not justifiably be either classified or completely open (Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, 1982~.
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The Committee recommends a number of guidelines for researchers, for funding agencies, for professional journals, for research training institutions, and for over participants in research Mat should facilitate and encourage sharing data for research purposes.
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Thus, initial investigators are entitled to be the first to examine, summarize, and analyze their data. There may, however, be exceptions, for example, when data collection is a joint effort or when public funds are used to pay for data collection with the intent that He data be available to many in a timely manner.
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Plans for data sharing should be an integral part of a research plan whenever data sharing is feasible. Researchers might benefit by first considering whether Hey could be subsequent analysts: data might already have been collected that are sufficiently useful to warrant forgoing new data collection.
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Cnticism of a data collection or analysis should be made in a professional manner. With few exceptions, it is desirable that subsequent analysts also inform initial investigators or data archives promptly of the results of new analyses, even those that are unrelated to We original analysis.
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Even for small data sets, however, a funding organization Mat encourages reasonable standards for documentation will aid not only subsequent analysts, but also the initial investigators. Funding organizations that require, in rules or by contracts, unnecessarily excessive protection of privacy and confidentiality hinder the sharing of data.
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Organizations funding large-scale, generalpurpose data sets should be alert to the need for data archives and consider encouraging such archives where a significant need is not now being met. Recommendations to Editors of Scientific Journals The editorial policies of scientific journals have a significant effect on scientific practice, since the publication of research results in respected, refereed journals is one of the principal rewards of scientific research.
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Journals should require full credit and appropriate citations to original data collections in reports based on secondary analyses. Encouraging Accessibility to Data It should be standard practice for small data sets to be published with the research reports Cat use them.
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By allowing sufficient funds for adequate documentation of original studies and by funding research based on the use of shared data, funding agencies could foster Me grown and efficient use of such a service. The National Science Foundation might take a leading role in promoting it.
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