The integration of data submission to Dryad for PLOS journals has been significantly expanded and enhanced.
Category: Data availability
Tamiflu, Relenza, and influenza: what the data do (or don’t) tell us
The following is a guest post from Tom Jefferson of The Cochrane Collaboration, Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and Carl Heneghan from the University of Oxford. We asked them to tell the story behind their recent Cochrane systematic review [1] and dataset in Dryad [2] which holds valuable lessons about the evidence-base on […]
40 Years of Data
We are delighted to announce the availability of the data underlying the book “40 Years of Evolution” by Peter and Rosemary Grant. In this new book, the Grants give an account of their classic, long-term study of Darwin’s finches on one of the Galápagos Islands. From the announcement by Princeton University Press. The authors used […]
Data Citation Synthesis Group: Draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles
The Data Citation Synthesis Group has released a draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles and invites comment. This has been a very interesting and positive collaborative process and has involved a number of groups and committed individuals. Encouraging the practice of data citation, it seems to me, is one of the key steps towards giving […]