... [M]ost science people don't give out the data. They give out the research results, i.e., the summary of the data. There's huge incentive to do that: "A," it's actually secrecy, you don't want to give out your data because you can keep using it, and "B," it's much harder to check whether you've did some weird stuff with the stats to get your nice results if your data isn't actually available there, right? So there are large incentives to not put it out there ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/28/2009 09:52:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
