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To evaluate the effectiveness of different journal policy models in ensuring long-term accessibility to underlying scientific research data.

January 3, 2013The FASEB JournalOpen Access

Mandated data archiving greatly improves access to research data

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To evaluate the effectiveness of different journal policy models in ensuring long-term accessibility to underlying scientific research data.
Evaluated four journal policy approaches: no archiving policy, recommending deposition, and two models mandating deposition at manuscript acceptance.
Controlled for data type variability by examining publications that utilized the population genetic analysis software STRUCTURE.
Assessed author responsiveness, retrieval rates, and delays by directly requesting unpublished datasets from study authors.
Mandatory archiving policies requiring a data availability statement improved the odds of finding data online nearly 1000-fold compared to having no policy.
Journals with non-mandatory recommendations or less stringent policies achieved archiving rates only marginally higher than journals with no stated policy.
Direct requests to authors successfully recovered over 50% of datasets, but incurred an average delay of approximately 8 days and occasional author disputes.

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Comparative analysis reveals mandatory journal archiving policies increase public data availability nearly 1,000-fold, indicating strict mandates are essential for scientific transparency.

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Vines et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a11eeb2c031bb6829a598fd https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.12-218164

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Comparative analysis reveals mandatory journal archiving policies increase public data availability nearly 1,000-fold, indicating strict mandates are essential for scientific transparency.

Mandated data archiving greatly improves access to research data

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