Social scientists' satisfaction with data reuse

Much of the recent research on digital data repositories has focused on assessing either the trustworthiness of the repository or quantifying the frequency of data reuse. Satisfaction with the data reuse experience, however, has not been widely studied. Drawing from the information systems and information science literatures, we develop a model to examine the relationship between data quality and data reusers’ satisfaction. Based on a survey of 1,480 journal article authors who cited Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data in published papers from 2008 – 2012, we found several data quality attributes completeness, accessibility ease of operation, and credibility – had significant positive associations with data reusers’ satisfaction. There was also a significant positive relationship between documentation quality and data reusers’ satisfaction. © 2015 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 6565 Kilgour Place Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Suggested citation: Faniel, I. M., Kriesberg, A. and Yakel, E. (2015). Social scientists' satisfaction with data reuse. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.23480