Authors
James A Mills, Céline Teplitsky, Beatriz Arroyo, Anne Charmantier, Peter H Becker, Tim R Birkhead, Pierre Bize, Daniel T Blumstein, Christophe Bonenfant, Stan Boutin, Andrey Bushuev, Emmanuelle Cam, Andrew Cockburn, Steeve D Côté, John C Coulson, Francis Daunt, Niels J Dingemanse, Blandine Doligez, Hugh Drummond, Richard HM Espie, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Francesca Frentiu, John W Fitzpatrick, Robert W Furness, Dany Garant, Gilles Gauthier, Peter R Grant, Michael Griesser, Lars Gustafsson, Bengt Hansson, Michael P Harris, Frédéric Jiguet, Petter Kjellander, Erkki Korpimäki, Charles J Krebs, Luc Lens, John DC Linnell, Matthew Low, Andrew McAdam, Antoni Margalida, Juha Merilä, Anders P Møller, Shinichi Nakagawa, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Ian CT Nisbet, Arie J van Noordwijk, Daniel Oro, Tomas Pärt, Fanie Pelletier, Jaime Potti, Benoit Pujol, Denis Réale, Robert F Rockwell, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Alexandre Roulin, James S Sedinger, Jon E Swenson, Christophe Thébaud, Marcel E Visser, Sarah Wanless, David F Westneat, Alastair J Wilson, Andreas Zedrosser
Publication date
2015/10/1
Source
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Volume
30
Issue
10
Pages
581-589
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
The recent trend for journals to require open access to primary data included in publications has been embraced by many biologists, but has caused apprehension amongst researchers engaged in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies. A worldwide survey of 73 principal investigators (Pls) with long-term studies revealed positive attitudes towards sharing data with the agreement or involvement of the PI, and 93% of PIs have historically shared data. Only 8% were in favor of uncontrolled, open access to primary data while 63% expressed serious concern. We present here their viewpoint on an issue that can have non-trivial scientific consequences. We discuss potential costs of public data archiving and provide possible solutions to meet the needs of journals and researchers.
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