Moving From Idealism to Realism With Data Sharing | Annals of Internal Medicine

Only these opening sentences are OA: "Significant efforts have been made in the past decade to promote open science and data sharing in clinical research. The moral and scientific arguments are clear: If data are shared, it could promote transparency and understanding of the results, honor the participation of individuals, and enable new discoveries (1).

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently updated guidance requiring that results of federally funded research be made immediately available, and federal agencies have drafted a series of policies that outline expectations of their awardees. For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new Policy...."