Session Description: Open Science is upon us. With the August 2022 White House OSTP memo (Nelson 2022), federally-funded researchers will soon be required to share the data underlying publications, in addition to sharing the publications via open-access.
However, there are numerous benefits to sharing data! These include:
promoting more rigorous and reproducible research,
enabling better testing of theories with observations, and the synthesis of new ideas,
facilitating collaborations among teams of researchers,
and acknowledging the labor that goes into data collection, such as from students, technicians, public volunteers, and more.
As the newly inducted Data Paper Editors at Ecology (the journal), we are responsible for maintaining and updating the guidelines for this publication type, which will lead the way for data sharing in ecology (the field). But we can't do this without you! Therefore, we are organizing this special session to gather your perspectives on data sharing, in order to identify an innovative, practical, and inclusive way forward. We seek input from stakeholders across the broad diversity of ecologists: students, educators, researchers, conservationists, funders, the public, and more. Questions we are interested in answering include:
What are your motivations and fears around data sharing?
What enables you to share data? What prevents you from sharing data?
What would you use shared data for?
How do you currently share your research data (if at all)?
How would you seek out shared data from others?
What principles are important to you in sharing data (e.g. FAIR, CARE, CRediT)?
Join us for this collective brainstorming session as we design the future of data sharing!