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Data sharing has become a flourishing topic within the last years. One of the main drivers of this trend are the science-policy programs for enforcing open data. Many of the studies on data sharing are shaped by these programs as they contrast existing practices of using data in research with infrastructural-driven concepts of data sharing. My talk will focus on data sharing practices during the research process, in
order to understand their social logic. Therefore, I will analyze these data sharing practices with Max Weber’ terms of “social action” and “socialrelationship”. The empirical basis of my analysis are qualitative interviews with researchers on their handling of self-produced research data. I identified three different social forms of data sharing: (1) communal sharing, grounded on a feeling of belonging together, (2) cooperative sharing, based on trusted and controlled social relationships, (3) and making data public, which corresponds with open social relationships.