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 …

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 …

A request for raw data from the corresponding authors of 771 animal biotelemetry-focused
manuscripts, published between 1995 and 2015, highlighted a difference in data sharing …

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 …

Public data archiving (PDA) is widely advocated as a means of achieving open data
standards, leading to improved data preservation, increased scientific reproducibility, and …

Biologists have long valued publishing detailed information on rare and endangered
species. Until relatively recently, much of this information was accessible only through …

Concerns over data quality impede the use of public biodiversity databases and subsequent
benefits to society. Data publication could follow the well-established publication process …

An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving
(PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific …

Driven by changes to policies of governments and funding agencies, Open Access to
content and data is quickly becoming the prevailing model in academic publishing. Open …

Drawing upon the data deposited in publicly shared archives has the potential to transform
the way we conduct ecological research. For this transformation to happen, we argue that …