Chemical data management: an open way forward | EurekAlert!

"Finally, the authors propose five concrete steps that the field must take to create a FAIR data-management plan: The chemistry community should embrace its own existing standards and solutions. Journals need to make deposition of reusable raw data, where community standards exist, mandatory. We need to embrace the publication of “failed” experiments. Electronic Lab Notebooks that do not allow exporting all data into an open machine-actionable form should be avoided. Data-intensive research must enter our curricula. ..."