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Benefits of Depositing and Archiving Data

Archiving data:

  • Reinforces open scientific inquiry

  • Encourages diversity of analysis and opinions

  • Promotes new research and allows for the testing of new or alternative methods

  • Improves methods of data collection and measurements through the scrutiny of others

  • Reduces costs by avoiding duplicate data collection efforts

  • Provides an important resource for training in research

  • Ensures the safekeeping of data

  • Allows owners to avoid the administrative tasks associated with external users and their queries

  • Fulfills grant obligations regarding making funded research available to the research community

  • Enables researchers to demonstrate continued use of the data after the original research is completed, which can influence funding agencies to provide further research money

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