Data from: Gauging the purported costs of public data archiving for long-term population studies

It was recently proposed that long-term population studies be exempted from the expectation that authors publicly archive the primary data underlying published articles. Such studies are valuable to many areas of ecological and evolutionary biological research, and multiple risks to their viability were anticipated as a result of public data archiving (PDA), ultimately all stemming from independent reuse of archived data. However, empirical assessment was missing, making it difficult to determine whether such fears are realistic. I addressed this by surveying data packages from long-term population studies archived in the Dryad Digital Repository. I found no evidence that PDA results in reuse of data by independent parties, suggesting the purported costs of PDA for long-term population studies have been overstated.

近期有学者提出，长期种群研究可豁免作者需公开存档发表论文所依托的原始数据的要求。这类研究对生态学与进化生物学的诸多研究领域均具有重要价值，此前学界曾预判，公开数据存档（Public Data Archiving，PDA）会对这类研究的存续性带来多重风险，且所有此类风险最终均源于存档数据被独立第三方重复使用。然而，此前尚无相关实证评估，难以判断此类担忧是否属实。为此，本研究对存档于Dryad数字仓储（Dryad Digital Repository）的长期种群研究数据包开展了调研。研究未发现任何证据表明公开数据存档会导致存档数据被独立第三方重复使用，这说明此前所称的公开数据存档对长期种群研究造成的相关成本被过度夸大了。