Adventures in open data

Learned Publishing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 154-156

  Tananbaum, Greg ^a  

^a Intersection of Technology Content and Academia

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EID: 43749110935     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/095315108X254485     Document Type: Article

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1. A good example is discussed by Aubrey Blumsohn, Authorship, ghost-science, access to data and control of the pharmaceutical scientific literature: who stands behind the word? American Association for the Advancement of Science: Professional Ethics Reports, vol. XIX (3), Washington, DC, AAAS, 2006. http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/per/per46.pdf
2. See Draft Policy on Access to CIHR-funded Research Outputs, available at http://www. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/32326.html.
3. See Science, Technology and Innovation for the 21st Century. Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level, 29-30 January 2004 - Final Communiqué, available at http://www.oecd.org/document/ 0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_l_l_l_1,00.html.
4. See Wellcome Trust Policy on Data Management and Sharing, available at http://www. wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX035043.html.
5. Available at http://www.alpsp.org/Force Download.asp?id=129.
6. For more on Science Commons, visit http://sciencecommons.org/.
7. For more on the Open Knowledge Foundation, visit http://www.okfh.org/.
8. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
9. The IRIS website is http://www.iris.edu/.
10. For a good representative list, see Appendix E of the National Science Foundation's report entitled Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery, available at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf.
11. http://www.swivel.com
12. For a more detailed explanation of the NPG policy, see http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/availability.html.
13. A concrete example can be found within the RCSB Protein Data Bank: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/cgi/explore.cgi?pdbId=2 GW1.
14. Gleditsch, N.P., Metelits, C., and Strand, H. 2003. Posting your data: will you be scooped or will you be famous? international Studies Perspectives 4: 89-97.
15. The IRIS database, for example, maintains such a policy. See http://www.iris.edu/services/faq.htm#data for details.
16. A good example of meta-analysis in practice can be found in the examination of the safety of Vioxx; see Juni, P., Nartey, L., Reichenbach, S., Sterchi, R., Dieppe, P.A., and Egger, M. 2004. Risk of cardiovascular events and rofecoxib: cumulative meta-analysis. The Lancet, 364: 2021-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(04)1 7514-4
17. For a good overview of meta-analysis in the field of psychology, see Rosenthal, R. and DiMatteo, M.R. 2001. Meta-analysis: recent developments in quantitative methods for literature reviews. Annual Review of Psychology, 52: 59-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.59
18. The Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center provides an excellent primer on the importance of metadata at http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/metadata/why. html
19. http://thedata.org/
20. http://www.e-science.clrc.ac.uk/