Sharing Social Science Data: Advantages and Challenges (SAGE Focus Editions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803940831 ISBN 13: 9780803940833

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1991

Synopsis

This book represents the major accomplishments of social scientists who have pioneered in data sharing, highlighting the advantages for social science. It includes an examination of the reasons for data sharing, the specific sharing practices in various disciplines, the factors affecting the usefulness of shared data and individual and institutional concerns about data sharing. It will be useful to academics across the social sciences.

About this title

About the Author

Joan E. Sieber, a psychologist and Professor Emerita, California State University, East Bay, has specialized in empirical research on questions of scientific ethics, culturally sensitive methods of research and intervention, data sharing methodology, and scholarship on ethical problem solving. In 2001-2002, she was Acting Director of the National Science Foundation program Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology. She is the author of eight books and numerous other publications including software and encyclopedia entries on ethical problem solving in social and behavioral research.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803940831
• ISBN 13: 9780803940833
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Sieber Joan E.