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My jaw dropped at KCL's response to being asked for the data. How to trash your research reputation.
by davidgerard 11y ago
My jaw dropped at KCL's response to being asked for the data. How to trash your research reputation.
- mcguire 11y agoThe letter from KCL is worth reading: "Further to your recent request for information held by King’s College London, I am writing to confirm that the requested information is held by the university. The university is withholding the information in accordance with section 14(1) of the Act – Vexatious Request. ... "You initially requested the information in accordance with the data sharing policies of the Public Library of Science (PLOS). The university has decided to treat this as a request under section 1(1) of the Act, as the information is held by the university. We received your information request on 13 November 2015." I'll further note that the professor making the request is a critic of the article. KCL appears to be unilaterally declaring the request to be under the FOIA instead of PLOS rules so they can deny it.
- RobAley 11y agoTo be fair, regardless of their actual reason, public bodies like Universities are compelled by law to treat request that amount to, or could be made as, FOIA requests as if they were. I.e. there is no magic incarnation, set of words or similar that need to be uttered to make it so. It's similar to requests under the DPA. As always there are grey areas, and I'm not making a judgement as to whether, even if it was considered an FOIA request, it would be considered Vexatious (I don't know enough detail). But it is incumbent upon them to consider it as such.
- cpncrunch 11y agoThis doesn't exactly help Coyne's case: https://twitter.com/CoyneoftheRealm/status/661238808814333952 https://twitter.com/CoyneoftheRealm/status/66123880881433395...