[GOAL] Re: Some discussion points for the UK OA initiative

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

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> 4. DATA. What about authors who do not wish to make their research
> data freely accessible to all immediately, having gathered it for the
> purpose of analyzing and data-mining it themselves? Would it not be
> a better idea for the time being to merely recommend rather than
> require that data be made OA as soon as possible, rather than risk
> resistance from authors who are happy to give away their journal articles
> but not their data?
>

Data are critical to modern science and I strongly support those who
require (mandate) that they be published.  Authors are resistant to a lot
of things - that doesn't condone their behaviour


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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