[open-science] Fwd: Adding value to data: BioMed Central calls for greater researcher sharing

[Egon Willighagen]

Hi all,

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> The open access journal, BMC Research Notes, is seeking to encourage
> greater data sharing by waiving the publication fee for all articles
> which use or link to open data that is prepared in line with a
> community-accepted standard.

I think this is great news indeed! Of course, the data has always been
available under a CC license, but making the data available under a
public domain waiver is perfect.

Egon


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