Many ecology and evolution journals have recently adopted policies requiring that data from
their papers be publicly archived. I present suggestions on how data generators, data re …

Science depends on good data. Data are central to our understanding of the natural world,
yet most data in ecology and evolution are lost to science—except perhaps in summary form …

The recent trend for journals to require open access to primary data included in publications
has been embraced by many biologists, but has caused apprehension amongst researchers …

Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data
underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and …

We call for journals to commit to requiring open data be archived in a format that will be
simple and clear for readers to understand and use. If applied consistently, these …

We have found that ongoing financial investment in dataarchiving infrastructure yields an
impressive scientific return, and believe that it should be wholeheartedly supported by …

To improve the quality and efficiency of research, groups within the scientific community
seek to exploit the value of data sharing. Funders, institutions, and specialist organizations …

The rapid advancement of fields such as molecular biology, genomics and molecular
evolution is due, in large part, to pervasive data sharing. Ecology, evolution (other than …

The expectations for scientific publishing and publications are changing rapidly and the
Journal of Heredityis staying apace. Since 2008, we have adopted fully electronic …

Conservation science is a crisis discipline in which the results of scientific enquiry must be
made available quickly to those implementing management. We assessed the extent to …