[Libs-Or] Opportunity to help young scholar who needs help on making up a survey about Open Data mandates

[hleman at samhealth.org]

Hi, all. I just read the blog post below by Heather Piwowar, an informatician and a quite interesting , very bright person. The post is edifying in and of itself and it may that some of you might have suggestions to offer her the construction of surveys. I t would be nice to connect librarians with those who, like Heather, are studying new modes of scientific communication:

Prelim proposal: impact of journal data sharing mandates

http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/journalpolicyproposal/

Heather writes, "Do you want to know the impact of journal policies that mandate data sharing?  Me too.  I’ve been working on a study design to correlate policy adoption by journals with changes in scientists’ attitudes, experiences, and practices around publicly archiving research datasets.

I’d love some community input because writing a good survey and design is hard.  Summary and a link to the draft questionnaire are below.  I’m still finishing up the document to be submitted to my research ethics board ASAP.  Thoughts or suggestions?  I want it to be a useful study, one that focuses on just a few questions and studies them well."

Thanks for listening!

Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services
815 NW 9th Street Suite 203A
Corvallis, OR 97330
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