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     UC-UTCC would like to encourage data owners to archive their own data in a good standard practice for the purpose of reusability. As known that data is necessary for any research. Further more, acquiring data via survey is time consuming and expensive. Available data should be reused if possible. Only new study portions that are not available will be used

     A dataverse for an individual researcher would replace the lists of data sets some scholars make available on their own Webpages and would meet the requirements listed in the previous section. After all, individual scholars are also not professional archivists, and the datasets on their own pages are not likely to persist in readable formats or perhaps at all when the scholar changes computers, switches Web addresses, moves universities, retires, or dies. Depositing data directly in archives, such as the ICPSR, would solve this problem, but this happens too infrequently, even when required by granting agencies. Part of the problem is that some scholars perceive that their work would be insufficiently recognized and instead seen as a product of the archive. Regardless of its accuracy, the perception does seem to be widespread in some fields. Fortunately, the problem can be fixed, as this particular use of Dataverse Network technology should lead to proper recognition for the authors’ hard work and indeed more visibility and scholarly citation credit than they would have by listing data on their own page or shipping it off to an archive. At the same time, they will also be making a larger contribution to the scholarly community by sharing data and guaranteeing its persistence through the support of a social science archive. We intend that a not insignificant side effect of these developments will be a substantial increase in the holdings of our public data archives.

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