Tag: open data
Balancing Openness and Privacy in Research Data Sharing
— by Chloe Ng To promote transparency and research integrity, researchers are encouraged to make their research processes accessible, including sharing research data. However, for researchers working with human participants, there are important ethical and legal considerations when handling personal data, such as interview transcripts or medical records. This blog post explores strategies for practicing…
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A Comparative Approach to Explore HKU Publication Trends Using Data from OpenAlex and Peer Databases
— by Vivian Qiu, Florence Ng The accelerating adoption of open science practices has driven the emergence of digital tools or platforms that enable openness in research. These tools greatly enhanced the accessibility and transparency of scholarly publications and relevant data. In our previous blog post released in 2022, we introduced OpenAlex, an open catalog…
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State of Open Data 2023: Nuanced approach, readily available support, and AI awareness
— by Chloe Ng Conducted by Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, the State of Open Data 2023 survey was carried out in June 2023, collecting a total of 6091 valid responses from researchers who had published or submitted a manuscript to a journal within the last 5 years worldwide. Respondents represented diverse geographical regions,…
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State of Open Data 2022
— by Fanny Liu The State of Open Data 2022 survey was conducted in May – July 2022, and received over 6000 responses by respondents from across different regions, in different fields of interest, and at different career stages. Most trends are encouraging around the adoption and acceptance of open data. A majority of the…
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Ways to boost your citations – Data Sharing
— by Florence Ng Data sharing is getting support from the academic communities as favourable practice in scholarly publishing. It can enable researchers to replicate findings, build on others’ expertise, and reuse existing data for making new discoveries (Gilmore et al., 2018). While it brings key benefits to scientific progress and the whole research community,…
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