Publications & Presentations

Data Sharing Expenses

“Help Us Understand the Cost(s) of Research Data Management and Sharing at UNL.” Research Moment. June 6, 2025.
“In The Moment Costs: A Longitudinal Study of Data Management & Sharing.” IASSIST. June 4, 2025.
“Uncovering the Costs of Academic Data Sharing.” Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) National Center for Data Services (NCDS) (webinar). July 31, 2024.
“The Best Things in Life Are Free But Data Sharing is Not: A Multi-Institutional Study of the Realities of Academic Data Sharing.” IASSIST. May 29, 2024.
“Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expenses.” CNI Spring 2024. March 26, 2024.
“A Model for Calculating Institutional Costs for Data Management and Sharing.” International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). February 20, 2024. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11165628
Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expense. February 2024. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.radsexpense2024.
- Highlights from this report are discussed in the ARL webinar “Making Research Data Publicly Accessible.”
- Hosts of the IDEA podcast, Shannon Sheridan and Briana Ezray Wham, discuss this report in the episode, “Article Review: Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expenses.”
“Conversations with US Federal Agency Representatives: Exploring Data Management and Sharing Expenses.” ARL Views (blog). January 19, 2024.

Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expense.
February 2024. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.radsexpense2024.

Data Management and Sharing Activities: Institutional Support and Researcher Practices

Publicly Shared Data: A Gap Analysis of Researcher Actions and Institutional Support throughout the Data Life Cycle. ARL report. March 2024. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.radsgapanalysis2024.
Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Methodology 2022–2023 Surveys and Interviews. ARL report. January 2024. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.radsmethodology2023.
“Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative Public-Access Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Activities, v3.” November 6, 2023. https://doi.org/10.29242/radsdmsactivities2023.

Project Updates & Other Project Outputs

“The RADS Initiative: Supporting Resiliency in Research Data Services.” RDAP. March 12, 2025.
“From Compliance to Sustainable Capacity—Strategic Insights on Research Data Stewardship.” ARL Views (blog), December 19, 2024.
Seek and you may (not) find: A multi-institutional analysis of where research data are shared. PLOS One. April 25, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306199.
- Data supporting the article and analysis: RADS Metadata Analysis (current); https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8368205 (archived).
“Navigating the Complex Landscape of Research Data Management and Sharing (DMS): DMS Activities from the RADS Initiative.” ARL Views (blog). December 19, 2023.
Phase one dataset: “Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Cost of Sharing Survey Data, 2022.” https://doi.org/10.7936/6rxs-103654.