2025-06-04 –, 2306/2309
Language: English
Introduction
As the open access (OA) movement progresses, more attention is being shifted not just to the article’s availability but also the availability of data used or produced by the article; especially considering the persistence of the reproducibility crisis. Another concern might be if there is a difference in data sharing practices between articles published in hybrid journals as compared to open access journals.
Methods
322 research articles published between 2021 through 2024 in six medical librarianship journals (three hybrid and three open access) were analyzed. Though all articles categorized in the original/featured/research article sections were initially included in the sample, only the 200 articles which conducted data analysis were analyzed fully (program descriptions and other narrative articles were excluded).
Results
Data availability statements were present in 56% of articles (29% of hybrid articles and 74% of OA articles) and data collection was reproducible in 55% of articles (47% hybrid, 60% OA). 30% of articles shared raw data (13% hybrid, 41% OA). When data was shared, 51% of articles analyzed shared within the appendix (38% hybrid, 60% OA), 21% within OSF (15% hybrid, 25% OA), and 14% within an institutional repository (8% hybrid, 18% OA).
Discussion
The presentation intends to discuss differences in data sharing practices between articles published in hybrid vs open access medical librarianship journals. Results of this lightning talk may inform researchers' information retrieval practices when searching for datasets to analyze or projects to reproduce.
Eden A. Kinzel (BSc, MLIS) is a Liaison & Education Librarian at the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto. Her role includes supporting the Department of Family and Community Medicine as well as the Clinical Public Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology divisions of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health via instruction, research consultations, and collaborating on knowledge syntheses. Prior to Gerstein, she was a liaison to Pharmacy and various medical disciplines at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an Associate Fellow at the National Library of Medicine.