Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well Are We Doing?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Roche, Dominique G ^a,b   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a,c   Lanfear, Robert ^a,d   Binning, Sandra A ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MANPOWER; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGY; DATA ACCURACY; DATA CURATION; DATASETS AS TOPIC; ECOLOGY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84949456966     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002295     Document Type: Article

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