Opening up the research lifecycle: Taylor & Francis introduces new data sharing policies | Newsroom | Taylor & Francis

"Today Taylor & Francis introduces a suite of new data sharing policies to drive open scholarship forwards and help the research communities we work with achieve their goals. Data is a key research output, therefore sharing it presents a multitude of opportunities for research and researchers. The new policies aim to promote increased sharing of data to improve the robustness of the entire research process, supporting transparency, reproducibility, and replicability of results. Data citation capabilities will be introduced, enabling researchers to get and give credit for their valuable data findings. Where authors share data, they will be required to include a data availability statement, which will improve the discoverability of their research. Our policies range from encouraging data sharing to making data open with a license, offering flexibility while ensuring the needs of different fields and disciplines are met...."