Data Access for the Open Access Literature: PLOS's Data Policy
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: The new PLOS Data Policy will require all submitting authors to include a data availability statement as of March 1, 2014. Read more about what this means and see the policy itself in this cross-PLOS Editorial from Theo Bloom and colleagues.
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In a growing number of jurisdictions, some funders require a commitment on the part of researchers to share their data; similarly, some journals require data sharing statements as part of the article submission process.
“In a growing number of jurisdictions (eg, Canada, US, UK), some funders now require a commitment on the part of researchers to share their data (eg, US National Institutes of Health, UK National Institute for Health and Care Research, Gates Foundation). Similarly, some journals require data sharing statements as part of the article submission process (eg, The BMJ, PLOS Medicine).91 92”
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- Authors
- Bloom, T., Ganley, E., & Winker, M.
- Affiliations
- Public Library of Science (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bloom, Theodora
- Venue
- PLoS Medicine
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2014-02-25
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e1001607
- ISSN
- 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-1676
- PMC
- PMC3934818
- OpenAlex
- W2031655969
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 5
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- data availability statements, research data sharing, open access publications, data policy, author responsibility
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