Data Sharing in Comparative and International Education.

INFORMATION sharing; INFORMATION resources management; INSTITUTIONAL repositories; BACK up systems; DATA warehousing; INFORMATION retrieval

The author reflects on the issue of data sharing in publishing academic papers. He mentions the impact of the decline in costs of data storage and the creation of massive digital data repositories on the debate in data sharing, the decision of the American Educational Research Council (AERC) to enable data sharing at the publication stage for all AERC journals, and the many uses of data sharing.