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BioMed Central Blog

Monday Jun 29, 2009

Data publication and openness in the scientific community

Data publication: towards a database of everything, a Commentary article published in BMC Research Notes, discusses the changing nature of data publication, the challenges that face the Open Science movement, and why the publication of primary scientific data is important to us all.

BioMed Central has pioneered the open access publishing model and there has been rapid movement in the field of research publishing in the last few years, with open access publishing now firmly in the mainstream. The aim of BMC Research Notes is to reduce the loss suffered by the research community when results remain unpublished because they do not form a sufficiently complete story to justify the publication of a full research article. A key objective of the journal is to ensure that associated data sets are published in standard, reusable formats whenever possible, and are exposed to ensure that they are searchable and easily harvested for reuse.

This short Commentary article by Vincent S Smith is an interesting and timely contribution to the literature and debate surrounding publication of primary scientific data.

Rhian Cunliffe

Senior Journal Development Editor, BMC-series journals

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