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Archive for February, 2010

Panton Principles

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on 2010/02/22 | Leave a Comment »

“For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made open.” The just-released Panton Principles propose that “data related to published science should be explicitly placed in the public domain.” The creators recommend “adopting and acting on the following principles:” When [...]

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Why don’t we share data?

Posted in Data sharing, Uncategorized, tagged on 2010/02/18 | Leave a Comment »

There are lots of opinions and answers to this question.  For starters, here’s a lively blog post, responding to this editorial last April.  Consider also this blog post. What do you think are the barriers to data sharing?

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology editorial on data archiving

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on 2010/02/12 | Leave a Comment »

The Journal of Evolutionary Biology, the journal of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, has just published an editorial supporting data archiving. The editorial is now available online: The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology.  Allen J. Moore, Mark A. McPeek, Mark D. Rausher, Loren Rieseberg, Michael C. Whitlock.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2010. [...]

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New editorial supports data archiving

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on 2010/02/03 | Leave a Comment »

The journal Evolution has joined other Dryad partner journals in announcing a new data archiving policy mandating, as a condition of publication, that the data used in a paper be made publicly available. The editorial says Data that are properly archived are saved for posterity, and the archives also function to preserve data in a [...]

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