Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications
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Blog Post
...Jim Woodgett.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) created a stir earlier this year when it announced its ...manuscript submission. The rationale includes increasing the ability of reviewers (and, once published...much time they had. It could be argued that data generators may, in light of the policy, hold onto data longer...some cases, typically consortia involving genomic screens, the data stream is so prolific that raw information... available to everyone at once, including the generators. This practice doesn’t appear to harm the originating...require access to each individual video. To PLOS’s credit, the organization subsequently clarified what the...and this alone is a reasonable motivation for increasing both data accessibility and methodological detail...