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These incentives can be grouped in soft and hard encouragements. Furthermore,
each stakeholder in research can play a specific role in this. Below, a table is depicted
which outlines the carrots and sticks that can be applied by a stakeholder.
Has
dependencies
Has boundary
conditions
Stakeholder
Can offer carrots
Can offer sticks
Data manager
Training support,
guarantee
trustworthiness
Archiving
regulations
Funding,
standards and
guidelines
Institutional
policy,
infrastructure
Publisher
Citability,
accessibility, high
quality papers
Journal rejects if
data not supplied
and preserved or
if DOI for data is
lacking
Good
infrastructure,
persistent
identifiers for
linking
Editors agree,
reviewers can
review, agreed
standards on
how to review
data
Funder
Extra funding for
preservation of
research data in
trusted digital
archive. Extra
funding for
sharing data with
other researchers
and communities
No funding and
no payment if
data not
deposited, require
proposal to
address
preservation
aspects
Budgets
Manageable,
controllable ? Is
infrastructure in
place ?
Researcher
Reproducible
results, basis for
more research,
citability and
recognition
Embargoes, no
access for
researchers who
do not make data
available
Good
infrastructure
Part of bigger
group
Research
institute
High quality
research
environment, no
worry about cost
or safe deposit
places, easy tools
for automatic
generation of
contextual
information for
data
Rules of the
house, limit
budgets if not
done restricting
budgets
Budgets, good
infrastructure
Common
standards
Employer
Eternal fame
Labour
condition
Common
practice
elsewhere
Labour laws
Policy makers More budgets,
awareness raising
No budgets
Good
infrastructure
Common
practice
