Open data facilitate reproducibility and accelerate scientific discovery but are hindered by perceptions that researchers bear costs and gain few benefits from publicly sharing their data, with limited empirical evidence to the contrary. We surveyed 140 faculty members working in ecology and evolution across Canada's top 20 ranked universities and found that more researchers report benefits (47.9%) and neutral outcomes (43.6%) than costs (21.4%) from openly sharing data. The benefits were independent of career stage and gender, but men and early career researchers were more likely to report costs. We outline mechanisms proposed by the study participants to reduce the individual costs and increase the benefits of open data for faculty members.

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报告了加拿大生态与进化学术学院共享开放数据的个人成本和收益

开放数据促进了可重复性并加速了科学发现，但受到以下观念的阻碍：研究人员承担成本并且从公开共享数据中获得的收益很少，相反的经验证据有限。我们对加拿大排名前 20 的大学中从事生态学和进化研究的 140 名教职员工进行了调查，发现与公开共享数据的成本（21.4%）相比，更多的研究人员报告了收益（47.9%）和中性结果（43.6%）。收益与职业阶段和性别无关，但男性和早期职业研究人员更有可能报告成本。我们概述了研究参与者提出的机制，以降低个人成本并增加开放数据对教职员工的好处。