EurekAlert June 4, 2019
According to a team of researchers in the US (AGU, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brandeis University, Columbia University, University of Virginia, industry) scientists don’t share data for many reasons. Those who create data rarely receive credit, and when they do, recognition is often limited to citations. Scant support is available for curating data. These issues span all disciplines, but conversations are disconnected. That’s why more than 100 repositories, communities, societies, institutions, infrastructures, individuals and publishers (including Springer Nature, the publishers of Nature) have signed up since last November to the Enabling FAIR Data Project’s Commitment Statement in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences go.nature.com/2wv2jxd for depositing and sharing data. The principles state that research data should be ‘findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable’ (FAIR). The idea is not new but aligning this broad community around common data guidelines is a radical step…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
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