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Encouraging the availability of supporting data

In an effort to promote transparency and reproducibility in research, Cell & Bioscience has joined a growing number of BioMed Central journals aiming to increase the availability of supporting data.

We have introduced a new standard article section for research articles and short reports, ‘Availability of supporting data’, in which authors are encouraged to deposit the data set(s) supporting the results reported in submitted manuscripts in a publicly-accessible data repository, when it is not possible to publish them as additional files.

This optional section has been introduced with the aim of allowing authors to more easily indicate where and how the data supporting the results of their research can be found online, providing a better link between journal articles and underlying data.

Posted by Elizabeth Bal at 13:50    Comments (0)