(blogs.openaccesscentral.com/): On 2nd September 2010 BioMed Central issued a draft position statement in support of open data, which provides a number of recommendations – and aspirations – for the role of publishers in promoting reproducible research by increasing scientific data sharing, data reuse and open data. In the months since the BioMed Central statement, a number of high-level policy statements on data sharing have emerged. These are positive developments but there are many details and practicalities still be to worked out. So rather than ‘why share data?’, the question now is ‘how?’.
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