Rec. 21: Encourage and incentivise reuse of FAIR outputs
- Short Title: Rec. 21: Encourage and incentivise reuse of FAIR outputs
- Source Documnent: Turning FAIR into reality: Final report and action plan from the European Commission expert group on FAIR data
- Source Document Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.2777/1524
- Publishing Organisation: European Commision
- Date of Publication: 2018-11-26
- Topic: Sustainability/ funding/ business-model, Capacity building/ incentivisation
- Keywords: reuse, incentives, reward, encouragement
- Addressed Stakeholders: research funders, institutions
- Full Text: Funders should incentivise the reuse of FAIR outputs when appropriate by promoting this in funding calls and requiring research communities to seek and build on existing content wherever possible. Action 21.1: Researchers - including graduate students - should be required to demonstrate in research proposals and in DMPs that existing FAIR data resources have been consulted and used where appropriate, before proposing the creation of new data. Action 21.2: Research funders and the academic reward system should ensure that research that reuses data and other outputs is valued as highly as research that creates new content. Action 21.3: Appropriate levels of funding should be dedicated to reusing existing FAIR outputs by initiating schemes that incentivise and stimulate reuse of data and code.