# Benefits of Open Data from

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> Benefits of Data Management, Sharing, and Reuse  
> Accelerates scientific progress: Data sharing allows researchers to access and understand  
> others’ data and re-use them for their own scientific purposes, thereby speeding up the rate of  
> new discoveries, and preventing unnecessary expensive data collection.  
> • Numerous research organizations in Canada have recognized this potential and have  
> adopted open research practices (e.g., Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (McGill U.),18  
> Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (U. Guelph)).19  
> • Milham et al. (2018) use the International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative to provide  
> direct evidence for the impact of data sharing on the scale of related studies. They  
> estimate that for the nearly 1,000 papers included in their analysis, the saved cost of de  
> novo data generation are between $893M to $1,707M.20  
> • Figures published by the National Research Council **estimate a greater number of articles**  
> are currently being published using preserved archival data from the Hubble Space\*\*  
> Telescope than are published by new observations\*\*.21

> Enhances collaboration: Enables researchers to collaborate with each other by sharing data,  
> research environments, and tools.  
> • Open data enables recombination of data from heterogeneous sources spanning multiple  
> times and places to ask new questions.22  
> • When data are created, organized, described, and preserved using the same standards,  
> they become more interoperable and can be integrated into common tools.  
> • For example, by taking advantage of common neuroscience data formats, the  
> McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience is developing software tools and  
> platforms that are openly available for use by the Canadian and international  
> research community.  
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> • A 2016 review of the open data made available by the European Bioinformatics  
> Institute estimates a direct efficiency impact of between £1 billion and £5 billion per  
> annum.  
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> Increases visibility and impact of research: Data made discoverable and accessible through  
> a data repository can dramatically increase the impact of that research.  
> • Publishing research data has been associated with higher citation rates. For instance,  
> publications from clinical trials that shared underlying data were found to be cited up to  
> 70% more frequently than those that did not.  
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> • Initiatives like the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) drive increased visibility  
> of repositories and their data, and present a national snapshot of Canadian data assets.  
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> Enables reproducibility of research results: When data are archived and shared, results can  
> be re-examined and data can be used for re-analysis, thereby improving reproducibility and  
> trustworthiness of published results.  
> • There are both tangible and intangible impacts of the current reproducibility crisis:  
> • Freedman et al. (2015) estimate that the total prevalence of irreproducible  
> biomedical research in the U.S. exceeds 50%, resulting in $28B annually spent on  
> preclinical research that is not reproducible.  
> 27  
> • Meanwhile this lack of scientific reproducibility plays a significant role in reducing  
> public trust in science (G7, 2019).  
> 28 Results of a 2019 Pew Research poll surveying  
> the American public’s trust in scientific experts highlighted open data as a factor

> **[rdm\_current\_state\_report-1\_1.pdf](https://alliancecan.ca/sites/default/files/2022-03/rdm_current_state_report-1_1.pdf)**
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