Results of online survey on incentives for FAIR and open data practices (NFDI4Earth Report)

To better understand the current attitudes and practices surrounding the principles of fairness and openness in research data management, an online survey targeting researchers in the German Earth System Sciences community was conducted. Participants were asked to provide insights into their current practices and into reasons that would motivate them to engage in these practices more often.

The survey started with questions about the status of the participant, the institutional affiliation and the disciplinary field of work. Then, FAIR and open data practices were addressed with four questions about the general relevance of FAIR and open data practices, the engagement in FAIR and open data practices in research and teaching/education activities, and about incentives that would motivate participants to perform FAIR and open data practices more often. This was followed by two questions about data sharing: drivers of data sharing as well as reasons for not to share data. The survey was designed to take approximately 10 min to answer.

This report presents the results of the online survey. The interpretation of the results will be part of a future follow-up report.