Research data archiving
In recent years this approach has become increasingly strained as research in some areas depends on large datasets which cannot easily be replicated independently.
It was made possible by advances in information technology allowing large amounts of data to be stored and accessed from central locations.
For example, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) adopted their first policy on data archiving in 1993, about three years after the beginning of the WWW.
The need for data archiving and due diligence is greatly increased when the research deals with health issues or public policy formation.
Exceptions to the required archiving of data may be granted at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief for studies that include sensitive information (e.g., the location of endangered species).
We feel this will greatly enhance the quality and impact of the resulting research by drawing on the data collector’s profound insights into the natural history of the study system, reducing the risk of errors in novel analyses, and stimulating the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration and training for which the ATBC and Biotropica are widely recognized.NB: Biotropica is one of only two journals that pays the fees for authors depositing data at Dryad.
The American Naturalist requires authors to deposit the data associated with accepted papers in a public archive.
[4]The primary data underlying the conclusions of an article are critical to the verifiability and transparency of the scientific enterprise, and should be preserved in usable form for decades in the future.
The American Genetic Association also recognizes the vast investment of individual researchers in generating and curating large datasets.
Consequently, we recommend that this investment be respected in secondary analyses or meta-analyses in a gracious collaborative spirit.Molecular Ecology expects that data supporting the results in the paper should be archived in an appropriate public archive, such as GenBank, Gene Expression Omnibus, TreeBASE, Dryad, the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity, your own institutional or funder repository, or as Supporting Information on the Molecular Ecology web site.
Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, especially for sensitive information such as human subject data or the location of endangered species.Such material must be hosted on an accredited independent site (URL and accession numbers to be provided by the author), or sent to the Nature journal at submission, either uploaded via the journal's online submission service, or if the files are too large or in an unsuitable format for this purpose, on CD/DVD (five copies).
The policy advises reviewers to consider several questions, including: "Should the authors be asked to provide supplementary methods or data to accompany the paper online?
(Such data might include source code for modelling studies, detailed experimental protocols or mathematical derivations.
Therefore, before publication, large data sets (including microarray data, protein or DNA sequences, and atomic coordinates or electron microscopy maps for macromolecular structures) must be deposited in an approved database and an accession number provided for inclusion in the published paper.
)To allow others to verify and build on the work published in Royal Society journals, it is a condition of publication that authors make available the data, code and research materials supporting the results in the article.
Researchers seeking funding from NSF are now required to file a data management plan as a two-page supplement to the grant application.
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