The State of Data Sharing in Canada
Peter Suber,
Open Access News,
Feb 03, 2009
Peter Suber links to a government report on the state of open access in Canada, mysteriously unpaginated and protected to prevent cut and paste, making it almost impossible to cite. The state of the state is not pretty: "Much of the research data being produced today is hard to access by other Canadian research communities, and is often not ideally structured to be as useful or as open as possible." And, "Researchers are reluctant to share data because they feel it is their intellectual property." Wait a second - is that true? This is not the researchers - this is the government organizations, like Statistics Canada and Natural Resources Canada, treating data like IP and charging for access.
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