Table 4.
Topics Addressed in Secondary Data Use Guidelines
| Topic | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | % |
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| Published Requirements – Before Access | |||||||||||||
| Complete application to access data | √ | √ | - | √ | - | - | -* | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 67 |
| Clarification given about potential fees | √ | √ | √ | - | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | - | √ | 67 |
| Data producer permission for some or all datasets | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | - | √** | √ | 83 |
| Fulill special conditions to access restricted use data† | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 83 |
| Justify purpose for data use | √ | √ | - | - | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 75 |
| Adherence to the requirements of research ethics committee | - | √ | - | √ | - | - | - | - | √ | - | - | - | 25 |
| After Access Topics | |||||||||||||
| Time limit on data use | - | - | - | - | - | - | -* | √ | -* | √ | - | -* | 17 |
| Commercial use prohibited | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | √ | -* | 75 |
| Continued data anonymity required | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 92 |
| Redistribution of downloaded data prohibited | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 83 |
| Cite data source in publications | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 100 |
| Secondary user accountable for new discoveries | √ | - | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | - | √ | -* | 58 |
| Send citations or notify repository about publications written on the basis of the downloaded data | - | √ | √ | - | - | - | √ | √ | -* | √ | √ | √ | 58 |
| Share new datasets created from secondary use | - | √ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | √ | √ | 25 |
Key: 1= Australian Data Archive (ADA); 2= Slovenian Social Science Data Archives; 3= Czech Social Science Data Archive MEDARD Catalog ; 4= Databrary at New York University and Penn State; 5= Dataverse US Murray Research Center at Harvard; 6= The Dryad Repository at North Carolina State University; 7= Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences; 8= Finnish Social Science Data Archive; 9= Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan; 10= Norwegian Social Science Data Services; 11= Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse; 12= UK Data Archive
√ = Guidelines address topic; - = No mention of topic in guidelines
Repository Contact indicated that the topic is addressed internally rather than in the written guidelines
Depositors grant Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research permission to handle/disseminate the data
Examples include afiliation with an institution that is a member of the repository or lead researcher status