It would be very useful if we had access to not only the papers but the actual data behind what is presented in the paper. Like have everybody store their resea

It would be very useful if we had access to not only the papers but the actual data behind what is presented in the paper. Like have everybody store their research in the cloud and allow everyone else access to it. Right now much data sits on hard drives in labs at universities and are never seen by anyone but the researchers who write the papers. Eventually the data gets deleted and all that data is lost and all you are left with is the paper. That is a lot of money/effort/information lost. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.014 ‘We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole.’ -Google's Vincent Cerf http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-boss-warns-forgotten-century-email-photos-vint-cerf http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-bos... Open access to the data would allow others to corroborate it, determine the correctness of the analysis in the paper, perform meta analysis, aggregate it with other similar data. Though there are bound to be privacy concerns, especially with medical research. Science itself has still not undergone the digital revolution and it desperately needs it.