A plea for open science on Zika | Science | AAAS

"Data from studies of Zika virus and its clinical effects should be shared as soon as possible, without scientists having to worry that they're endangering a later publication, dozens of leading journals and research funding agencies said today in a statement. The 11 journal publishers that signed the declaration—including The New England Journal of Medicine, PLOS, Springer Nature, and Science journals, pledge that they will make all papers concerning Zika virus freely available to anyone, and that data or preprints that are made publicly available won’t preempt their journals from later publishing the work. The 20 funding organizations, which include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and public funding agencies from 11 countries, promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data 'as rapidly and widely as possible,' including with public health agencies and the World Health Organization (WHO) ..."