Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore current practices, challenges and technological needs of different data repositories. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey was designed for data repository managers, and contact information from the re3data, a data repository registry,...

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to assess the citation advantage for self‐archived Open Access (OA) agriculture research against its non‐OA counterparts. Design/methodology/approach – At the article level, the paper compared the citation counts of self‐archived research...

Purpose – A number of subject-orientated and general websites have emerged to host academic resources. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the uptake of such services in order to decide which depositing strategies are effective and should be encouraged. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose This study investigates differences and commonalities in data production, sharing and reuse across the widest range of disciplines yet and identifies types of improvements needed to promote data sharing and reuse. Design/methodology/approach The first authors of randomly selected...