Factors Influencing Research Data Reuse Behaviors In Chinese Researcher

The open research data(ORD)movement is developing with input of infrastructure,data policies,supporting services.However,there are practical difficulties in reusing open research data including that researchers' low participation,their concern on reusing ORD and less reuse feedback.Data reuse,the key process that helps implement the concept and assess the effect of ORD,plays an important role in maximizing data value,which benefits scientific and research innovation development.The mechanism that open data and data reuse promotes each other(research data reuse ecosystem),contributes to both decline of investment and sustainable development of ORD.Through exploring influencing factors and mechanism of research data reuse(RDR)behavior,this paper concluded some measures that stakeholders(especially libraries)can take to promote the formation of RDR ecosystem.By means of literature review,this paper used ecosystem perspective,and formed theoretical model of RDR behavior influencing factors of Chinese researchers.We took researchers in Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)from bioscience and relevant subjects as an example.Through partial least squares structural equation model(PLSSEM)approach,this paper analyzed 301 valid questionnaires to verify the theoretical model.Meanwhile,semi-structured interviews towards 10 typical researchers in target fields were conducted,to help better understand and provide supplement to the influencing mechanisms of RDR behaviors.Based on that,this paper formed a model which can be verified and interpreted towards users' participation in research data reuse activities.Results reveal that 1)researchers' perceived community culture foundation and perceived support measures usability positively influence their RDR behaviors.2)Researchers' attitude towards RDR ecosystem and perceived support measures usability positively influence their perceived reuse regulation proficiency.3)When reusing existing data sets,researchers tend to focus on data discovery and data publishing processes.4)Through cooperation on improvement of data discovery processes and tools,training program and rights management,stakeholders can better promote the formation of RDR ecosystem.This study suggests that stakeholders adopt data reuse ecosystem mode of policy promotion based on current stimulus-response mode,which can benefit all stakeholders and form a good circular ecology of data production,storage and reuse for researchers.Specific suggestions including 1)promoting the formation of data community.2)Paying attention to research data discovery,publishing processes,and researchers' research habits.3)Implementing or upgrading RDR services like code of conduct,clear development strategy,specialized division,scientific research reward mechanism,quality control mechanism.Suggestions for libraries including that 1)enlarging interaction with researchers' community to promote their agreement on RDR ecosystem.2)Playing a mediating and coordinating role in scientific community.Library can organize conservations among stakeholders,optimizing its services in resource organization,rights management and intelligence service areas and set the position of Data Librarian.Based on above measures,researchers' continuable participation in research data reuse activities is expected to increase.3)Based on data resource construction,user service and data curation service,library can make a complete development strategy to help continuous operation of RDR ecosystem.The application value of this paper is to further improve the function of subject service and data librarians in research data reuse ecosystem,in order to meet front-line researchers' practical needs in open research data environment.