Open Science ETDs and Institutional Repositories: Making Research Data FAIRer
Content
Metadata
Open Science ETDs and Institutional Repositories: Making Research Data FAIRer
Graduate students, as potential future full-time researchers, should show proficiency in data sharing because it provides credibility, increases impact and prepares students for grant writing. We compared the FAIRness of non-traditional research outputs (supplement materials) associated with theses and dissertations shared by individual students, with those shared through an institutional repository. Those shared in an institutional repository were significantly FAIRer and had higher views per month. We conclude that graduate students as a population are not yet proficient in applying the FAIR principles. And that they would measuarbly benefit from the review process that is part of most institutional repositories.
2022