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If one did not need to ask the authors for the dataset, implicitly challenging their work, but could instead just download it from a public website linked to in
by emiliobumachar 13y ago
If one did not need to ask the authors for the dataset, implicitly challenging their work, but could instead just download it from a public website linked to in the paper from day one...
- jacoblyles 13y agoI agree with you. But there are a lot of professors that won't share data when asked, so they deserve credit for that.
- emiliobumachar 13y agoIndeed. Also, not publishing the bulk of data is, unfortunately, standard procedure, not something those particular authors made up.
- Brashman 13y agoThe open data issue and the paywall issue are separate issues. Even if the publishers opened up the papers for public access, people would still not have had access to the R&R dataset.