The State of Open Data: Bridging policy and practice in data sharing (webinar)

Recording of a webinar held on January 23rd 2025 that provides an overview of The State of Open Data 2024: Bridging policy and practice in data sharing. The webinar session was presented by Mark Hahnel, Figshare founder and VP Open Research at Digital Science and Graham Smith, Open Data Programme Manager at Springer Nature.

The State of Open Data survey continues to provide a detailed and sustained insight into the motivations, challenges, perceptions, and behaviors of researchers towards open data. Now in its ninth year, the survey is a collaboration between Figshare, Digital Science and Springer Nature. Uniquely this year we wanted to go beyond understanding the thoughts and attitudes of researchers and, for the first time, look into what they were actually doing.

By combining three different data sources; Dimensions, Springer Nature Data Availability Statements (DAS) and the Wellcome-funded Make Data Count and DataCite Data Citation corpus (MDC DCC), we reveal linkages between peer reviewed published research and data sets being made available. We believe this jump from understanding what people say they are going to do to actively showing what they are doing, is an important step in driving change and understanding how to bridge the gap between policy and practice in open data sharing.