Data sharing for Master Theses: Survey and Recommendations.

As new practices become established procedures, we must amend policies and guidelines to expand to fit these new norms. Data sharing is now becoming an expectation in scientific research. This paper will survey the landscape of data sharing policy from funders, publishers, and universities and will take from those policies to suggest changes to the UNC SILS master’s paper/project policy to include a data sharing component, namely, a data management plan and a data availability statement. In order to assist students following the new policy and sharing data if desired, this project will create a libguide outlining best practices for data sharing and a step by step process to share data at UNC SILS.Master of Science in Information Scienc