March 16, 2001
Data Are Most Useful When Openly Shared
Like people in most fields, scientists take great pride in what they do. It is hard work to design and perform a good experiment, collect and analyze the data, and scrutinize the results to see if they have implications beyond the scope of the experiment. After that long and demanding process, it is natural for researchers to feel almost as if they own their data. Those proprietary feelings can be especially intense when other scholars want to mine the data for publication; after all,
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