Data Availability Statements and Actual Availability: A Case Study of Requests Made and Answered

Abstract

Data Availability Statements and Actual Availability has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for data availability statements and actual availability, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here
than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance