Data Sharing Can Offer Help in Science's Reproducibility Crisis
A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.
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Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.
73% of Academics Say Access to Research Data Helps Them in Their Work; 34% Do Not Publish Their Data
73% of Academics Say Access to Research Data Helps Them in Their Work; 34% Do Not Publish Their Data
A new report published today by Elsevier and CWTS provides a benchmark overview of data sharing perceptions and practices among researchers.
Standardising and Harmonising Research Data Policy in Scholarly Publishing
Standardising and Harmonising Research Data Policy in Scholarly Publishing
Springer Nature has developed a standardised, common framework for the research data policies of all its journals.
Important, Widely Used and Well-Reported Datasets
Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.
A Delicate Balance
Conflicts of interest can send a researcher's reputation crashing — but resolving them needn't be as burdensome as it seems.
Open-Data Contest Unearths Scientific Gems — and Controversy
Hundreds of researchers pick through clinical trial from a major blood-pressure study, to the dismay of some who collected the information.
A Global Coalition to Sustain Core Data
Although researchers have relied on international resources such as the Protein Data Bank and Flybase for decades, the current system is unsustainable because it is largely funded by short-term grants.
Why You Should Donate Your Medical Data When You Die
Organs are not the only item of value from the deceased.
Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
One Trump adviser suggested that NASA no longer should conduct climate research and instead should focus on space exploration.
Where are the data?
Papers accepted for publication in Nature and an initial 12 other Nature titles will be required to include information on whether and how others can access the underlying data.
What drives academic data sharing?
A systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users develops a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher’s point of view.
Researcher perspectives on publication and peer review of data
A survey of ~ 250 researchers across the sciences and social sciences asks what expectations “data publication” raises and what features would be useful to evaluate the trustworthiness, evaluate the impact, and enhance the prestige of a data publication.
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