<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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4. DATA. What about authors who do not wish to make their research<br>
data freely accessible to all immediately, having gathered it for the<br>
purpose of analyzing and data-mining it themselves? Would it not be<br>
a better idea for the time being to merely recommend rather than<br>
require that data be made OA as soon as possible, rather than risk<br>
resistance from authors who are happy to give away their journal articles<br>
but not their data?<br></blockquote><div><br>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<br>
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<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>