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Understanding the challenges associated with finding and accessing restricted data in Canada: a mixed methods study
| العنوان: | Understanding the challenges associated with finding and accessing restricted data in Canada: a mixed methods study |
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| المؤلفون: | Kevin B. Read, Grant Gibson, Amber Leahey, Lynn Peterson, Sarah Rutley, Julie Shi, Victoria Smith, Kelly Stathis |
| المصدر: | FACETS, Vol 9, Iss , Pp 1-9 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Canadian Science Publishing, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Education LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | restricted data discovery, data sharing, research data management, FAIR principles, open metadata, data access processes, Education, Science |
| الوصف: | Data that are restricted are historically challenging for researchers to find and even more difficult to access. While efforts to support open data have expanded in Canada, the same cannot be said for restricted data. To better understand the landscape of restricted data in Canada, this study aimed to accomplish two primary goals: (1) identify data sources where data were restricted and (2) assess a subset of health sciences data sources to determine how well they make their data discoverable and accessible. Our study identified 137 Canadian data sources, where 48 health sciences sources were evaluated for discoverability/accessibility. Data sources received poor grades with respect to data discovery due to a lack of metadata standards (38/48, 79%), an inability to find datasets through searching and browsing (32/46, 70%), and a lack of data documentation to support reuse (27/48, 56%). The absence of pricing information (31/48, 65%) and opaque dataset restrictions (25/48, 52%) were identified as key barriers to the data access request process. This study highlights significant room for improvement with respect to improving the discovery of and access to restricted data in Canada and makes recommendations for how to better support restricted data sources on a national scale. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2371-1671 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2371-1671 |
| DOI: | 10.1139/facets-2023-0102 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/e68cc73a4f854346b3f4d7fb704f0735 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.68cc73a4f854346b3f4d7fb704f0735 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 23711671 |
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| DOI: | 10.1139/facets-2023-0102 |