Qualitative Data Sharing

Data Repositories and Academic Libraries as Key Partners in Addressing Challenges

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3756942
AutoresSara Mannheimer (0000-0002-1433-6782, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, autor de correspondencia), Amy Pienta (0000-0003-1174-6118, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Dessislava Kirilova (0000-0002-3824-9982, Syracuse University), Colin Elman (0000-0003-1004-4640, Syracuse University), A Wutich (0000-0003-4164-1632, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)
Año2019
Volumen63
Número5
Páginas643-664
Fecha de publicación2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764218784991
PMID31693016
OpenAlexW2809809464
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas53

Data sharing is increasingly perceived to be beneficial to knowledge production, and is therefore increasingly required by federal funding agencies, private funders, and journals. As qualitative researchers are faced with new expectations to share their data, data repositories and academic libraries are working to address the specific challenges of qualitative research data. This article describes how data repositories and academic libraries can partner with researchers to support three challenges associated with qualitative data sharing: (1) obtaining informed consent from participants for data sharing and scholarly reuse, (2) ensuring that qualitative data are legally and ethically shared, and (3) sharing data that cannot be deidentified. This article also describes three continuing challenges of qualitative data sharing that data repositories and academic libraries cannot specifically address-research using qualitative big data, copyright concerns, and risk of decontextualization. While data repositories and academic libraries cannot provide easy solutions to these three continuing challenges, they can partner with researchers and connect them with other relevant specialists to examine these challenges. Ultimately, this article suggests that data repositories and academic libraries can help researchers address some of the challenges associated with ethical and lawful qualitative data sharing

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