Rethinking the A in FAIR Data: Issues of Data Access and Accessibility in Research
Journal: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
Year: 2022

The FAIR data principles are rapidly becoming a standard through which to assess responsible and reproducible research. In contrast to the requirements associated with the Interoperability principle, the requirements associated with the Accessibility principle are often assumed to be relatively straightforward to implement. Indeed, a variety of different tools assessing FAIR rely on the data being deposited in a trustworthy digital repository. In this paper we note that there is an implicit assu