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Programme of renegotiation

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 6:04 am
by asimd23
Over the past five years or so, the Collections Development team encourages data depositors to see the benefits of making their data available with less restriction and, where possible, opening their data. Some data cannot be open due to disclosure risk and an embargo period is always available for those who desire unique access to their japan rcs data data for analysis and publication. However there is little evidence to suggest that ‘scoops’ happen in the social sciences – in fact, publishing your data brings more opportunities than threats.

During our programme of renegotiation, held during the summer of 2014, the Collections Development team attempted to contact the relevant data depositors, rights holders and their institutions, for over 250 datasets. The team successfully removed the requirement for depositor permission for 32 datasets, removed the requirement for access to be limited to certain users for 8 datasets and removed the requirement for users to register to access data for 47 datasets. The latter are now open and include datasets such as Changes in the Structure of General Practice: the Patient’s Viewpoint, 1977, Management of Productivity, 1984, Civil Rights in Schools : School Students’ Views, 1997-1998 and Prison Reading Survey, 1997.