{"id":25,"date":"2014-05-29T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries-dev.mit.edu\/data-management\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2014-05-29T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T19:39:49","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/plan\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why manage &amp; share your data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Increase your research impact<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Making your data available to other researchers can impact discovery and relevance of your research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Save time<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Make a plan\" href=\"\/data-management\/plan\/\">Planning ahead<\/a> for your data management needs will save you time and resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preserve your data<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Find a data repository\" href=\"\/data-management\/share\/find-repository\/\">Depositing your data in a repository<\/a> safeguards your investment of time and resources while preserving your research contribution for you and others to use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maintain data integrity<\/strong><br \/>\nManaging and <a title=\"Documentation &amp; metadata\" href=\"\/data-management\/store\/documentation\/\">documenting your data<\/a>\u00a0throughout its life cycle will allow you and others to understand and use your data in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet grant requirements<\/strong><br \/>\nMany <a href=\"\/data-management\/plan\/funder-requirements\/\">funding agencies<\/a> now require that researchers deposit data collected as part of a research project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Promote new discoveries<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Share your data\" href=\"\/data-management\/share\/\">Sharing your data<\/a> with other researchers can lead to new and unanticipated discoveries and provide research material for those with little or no funding.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"><strong>Support open access<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Be a catalyst for research and discovery. Show your support for open access by sharing your data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase your research impact Making your data available to other researchers can impact discovery and relevance of your research. Save time Planning ahead for your data management needs will save you time and resources. Preserve your data Depositing your data in a repository safeguards your investment of time and resources while preserving your research contribution for you and others to use. Maintain data integrity Managing and documenting your data\u00a0throughout its life cycle will allow you and others to understand and use your data in the future. Meet grant requirements Many funding agencies now require that researchers deposit data collected as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/data-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}