Web widget nudges scientists to share their data : Nature News & Comment

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-11

Summary:

"A free web-based tool that promises to help its users ask authors of research papers to publicly share their data — and to make such requests publicly trackable — launched in beta version on 7 March. The Open Data Button — a downloadable web-browser extension — can be clicked when a reader is looking at a research paper and wants to see its underlying data, says Joseph McArthur, who is co-leading the project and is assistant director of the policy advocacy group The Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) in London. The button is currently available only for Google Chrome users ..."

Link:

http://www.nature.com/news/web-widget-nudges-scientists-to-share-their-data-1.19542

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.tools oa.data oa.open_data_button oa.advocacy oa.green oa.repositories

Date tagged:

03/11/2016, 12:07

Date published:

03/11/2016, 07:07