[open-science] clarification on effectiveness of mandates

Mon Apr 2 07:38:24 UTC 2012

Hi Peter,

What is your context for this bit?

>
>    - [data] Mandates are a blunt weapon and so far have little
>    effectiveness
>
> Do you mean the most common mandates -- "you should make your data
available" without any specifics or teeth -- or do you include mandates
that require evidence of a permanent archive URL prior to article
publication or end-of-grant funding?

There is evidence of effectiveness of the latter (data into Genbank, PDB,
GEO, etc).

Heather

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