EVOS data archiving project results: data, code and output (2016)

These data quantify the results of a two year data archiving effort by a small group of researchers and students at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara in collaboration with the Gulf Watch Alaska synthesis group and funded by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC). The EVOSTC was formed following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989. Since then, the EVOSTC has funded hundreds of projects and in 2012 we began a project to recover and archive the data collected during these EVOSTC funded projects. These data and analyses summarize the archiving project results and inform a manuscript (Funder imposed data publication requirements seldom inspire data sharing) in which we ask 5 main questions about the data collected from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council funded projects: 1. Twenty-five years after the EVOS, for how many projects funded by EVOSTC can we collect data? 2. Are there certain research fields that are more likely to make data available than others? 3. Are there certain sectors that are more likely to make data available than others? 4. Is the availability of data correlated to how old the data are? 5. Why did people refuse to share their data? The data here are a quantification of the responses to data outreach efforts, a data analysis script and results PDF as well as a figures script and output figures PDF.