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Nature journals now list Dryad among their suggested data repositories. Citing “an inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors’ published claims,” the editorial policies mandate data sharing and archiving. The policy on data sets reads: A condition of publication in a Nature journal is that [...]

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PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) is a repository for geoscience data with many features similar to Dryad, including use of DOIs for data files.  A recent press release reports that Elsevier and PANGAEA have implemented reciprocal linking between data in the repository and journal articles.   Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are [...]

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