A list of trite and predictable excuses for not opening data, captured by Paul Suijkerbuijk and Ton Zijlstra

"data on emailed request" means they don't.

Research study on social scientists, zoologists, and archaeologists re what significant properties of data aid reuse, what information sources data reusers consult.

The following is a guest post from Jane Mandelbaum, co-chair of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working group and IT Project Manager at the Library of Congress. As part of our ongoing series of Insights interviews with individuals doing innovative work related to digital preservation and stewardship, we are interested in talking to practitioners from other […]

Several years ago I made a personal commitment to Open Science: I try to publish papers on which I am the lead author on in open access journals and I archive data for these papers in Dryad, Figsha…

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Yet another needs assessment.

Well colour me naive. When PLoS announced their new data archiving policy  a few days ago, I hardly felt like it was a "big deal". Providing...

Beware of swears.

There is a great post by Jeni Tennison  on the Open Data Institute blog entitled Five Stages of Data Grief . It resonates so much with my ex...

Dropbox pivoting away from consumers because consumers can't be arsed to back their stuff up.

This paper examines how scientists working in government agencies in the U.S. are reacting to the “ethos of sharing” government-generated data. For scientists to leverage the value of existing govern...

In the Friday (Jan. 3) edition of the journal Science, an interdisciplinary group is calling on scholars, funders, journal editors and reviewers to adopt more stringent and transparent standards to

Hundreds of new pieces of scientific research are published every month, in fields from physics to biology. While the studies themselves are assiduously archived by publishers, the underlying data researchers analyze to come to their published conclusions can be another story. A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that the data that forms the backbone of those studies becomes less and less accessible to researchers over the years. That lack of archiving, says University of British Columbia zoologist Tim Vines, represents a missed opportunity for the scientific community as a whole.

Almost every entomologist I know uses excel for data storage. I’m not going to turn this into a rant about why that’s wrong, in fact, I’m going to confess something that may serio…