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 …

Claude Bernard (Bernard 1864) wrote that" art is me; science is us". This sentence has two
meanings. First, the altruism of scientists is worth more to Bernard than the self-indulgence …

In the abstract, the advantages of sharing data are manifest. No individual scientist, or even
small group of scientists, can collect all the data that are needed to address today's major …

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 …

There is a fundamental dilemma embedded in database creation and management. At least
on a perceptual level, the benefits derived from a database are greater for the user of the …

To make progress scientists need to know what other researchers have found and how they
found it. However, transparency is often insufficient across much of ecology and evolution …

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 …

Data sharing is the practice of making data available for use by others. Ecologists are
increasingly generating and sharing an immense volume of data. Such data may serve to …

INTRODUCTION Understanding the differing data management practices among academic
disciplines is an important way to inform existing and emerging library research support and …

MD 21250. tor of the data, have a head start and be more likely to do the better job?
Informatics studies are often highly collaborative. Most likely the best people for such …