FRPA perpetuates the misunderstanding, which seems common to much of the policy debate over open access publishing, that scientific research output is limited to whatever fits in the pages of a journal.
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The US Congress and selective data blindness
Posted in Uncategorized on 2010/07/30 | Leave a Comment »
Data archiving and tropical biology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged JDAP on 2010/07/17 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent published editorial in Biotropica, Emilio Bruna makes the case for data archiving in tropical biology. In his words, “… tropical ecosystems are undergoing myriad, rapid, and unprecedented environmental changes. The data collected by Biotropica’s authors could provide an invaluable resource to the scientists and decision-makers studying global change phenomena and designing conservation [...]
Nature journals include Dryad among recommended repositories
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data repositories on 2010/03/11 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Logo links journal article to data in repository
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data repositories on 2010/03/04 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Panton Principles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged open data 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 [...]
Why don’t we share data?
Posted in Data sharing, Uncategorized, tagged data sharing 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?
Journal of Evolutionary Biology editorial on data archiving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data archiving 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. [...]
New editorial supports data archiving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data archiving 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 [...]
Linking big
Posted in Data sharing, Uncategorized, tagged data archiving on 2010/01/18 | Leave a Comment »
A new commentary piece, Linking big: the continuing promise of evolutionary synthesis, in the journal Evolution describes the promise of “synthetic science,” which includes re-use of data sets, research results, or unconnected methods or concepts, leading to new discoveries or trends. The authors, who all are affiliated with the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), argue [...]
Editorial on data archiving
Posted in Data sharing, Uncategorized, tagged data archiving on 2010/01/14 | 1 Comment »
A strong editorial on data archiving is now available online in the February issue of The American Naturalist. Authors Michael C. Whitlock, Mark A. McPeek, Mark D. Rausher, Loren Rieseberg, and Allen J. Moore present the case for the importance of data archiving in science. This is the first of several coordinated editorials soon to appear in major journals: To promote the preservation and [...]
