Science Publishing: 'Tis the Season for Sharing Your Data | Synapse

"Welcome to the second installment of the UCSF Library column on scientific publishing (that means data too!). Last month, Anneliese Taylor provided a great introduction to open-access publishing. Today, I’ll be focusing on the natural extension of open-access publishing: the open data movement, broadly defined as the effort to make research data more publicly accessible. Attitudes and policies are shifting dramatically in favor of open data, as funders, publishers, and researchers alike acknowledge that the benefits that data sharing bring to science and biomedical discovery far outweigh the risks. I’ll provide a basic introduction to data sharing benefits and policies, and the resources available here at UCSF to support data sharing ..."