OPEN DATA, [OPEN] ACCESS: HOW DATA SHARING ENCOURAGES ARTICLE SHARING IN THE EARTH SCIENCES

The norms of a research community influence practice, and norms of openness and sharing can be shaped to encourage researchers who share in one aspect their research cycle to share in another. Different sets of mandates have evolved to require that research data be made public, but not necessarily articles resulting from that collected data. Using the Pangaea repository as an example, I ask to what extent publications in the Earth Sciences are more likely to be open access (in all of its definitions) when researchers open their data. Pangaea data sets from 2010 and 2015 were matched to their related articles and the level of open access was determined for each article. An increase in gold open access from 2010 to 2015 was found, as was a shift in preference for open access publishers. This presentation also considers the factors that may have influenced researchers’ decision to open their findings, including the adoption of open access mandates, and discusses the implications for library collections.