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I don't think they have it wrong... they're merely spinning it in such a way to keep publishers in the picture. I think a lot of what they're saying is valid th

I don't think they have it wrong... they're merely spinning it in such a way to keep publishers in the picture. I think a lot of what they're saying is valid though. In the biological sciences, there is a huge need for more openness. The stakes are just too high for many researchers to share data that hasn't yet been published, and the vast majority of researchers are still deathly afraid of being scooped. I think there needs to be a better way to write and publish articles in the first place... some way to make it easy to embed different data types (videos, 3d models, 3d graphs, large datasets, code) into papers. Making a replacement for Word (maybe an online, collaborative editor integrated with Mendeley?) would probably be a good step in this direction.

rapala 14y ago
How about putting the data in your public_html folder, and writing the link at the end of your paper?
delinquentme 14y ago
I keep hearing about how much fear is involved in pre-publication sharing ... I'd love a giant list of those individuals who have ACTUALLY experienced this and the context in which it happened. Clearly this is an area which could be capitalized on... and as we're talking about truly novel information the value is almost guaranteed.
- cing 14y ago
  I think every scientific lab has a story of someone in the group being scooped for whatever reason. From my experience it's most often from presenting unpublished work at a conference or presenting data where next logical step for publication is obvious. In my own experience, from conferences and word-of-mouth, I know the X other labs in the world that are doing the same project as me. If I was involved in pre-publication sharing and one of these X individuals published first, my years of work would no longer be accepted in a top journal and my publication record would suffer. My dream would be to have a prestigious journal that publishes the reproduction of an entire experiments rather than only novel discoveries. All labs already do this, reproduce published results, but it is rarely published.

rapala 14y ago

How about putting the data in your public_html folder, and writing the link at the end of your paper?

delinquentme 14y ago

I keep hearing about how much fear is involved in pre-publication sharing ... I'd love a giant list of those individuals who have ACTUALLY experienced this and the context in which it happened. Clearly this is an area which could be capitalized on... and as we're talking about truly novel information the value is almost guaranteed.

cing 14y ago
I think every scientific lab has a story of someone in the group being scooped for whatever reason. From my experience it's most often from presenting unpublished work at a conference or presenting data where next logical step for publication is obvious. In my own experience, from conferences and word-of-mouth, I know the X other labs in the world that are doing the same project as me. If I was involved in pre-publication sharing and one of these X individuals published first, my years of work would no longer be accepted in a top journal and my publication record would suffer. My dream would be to have a prestigious journal that publishes the reproduction of an entire experiments rather than only novel discoveries. All labs already do this, reproduce published results, but it is rarely published.