The Benefits of Preparing Data for Sharing Even When You Don't

摘要

Many journal pages (in this and other journals) have been filled with discussions, techniques and admonitions to share data.~1 While it is true that enhanced data sharing is a critical (and lagging) step in the quest for more open, reliable, and reproducible science, the battle to reduce the social and ethical barriers remains a topic of much discussion.2 While the social and ethical discussion wages on, the loss of data and the potential for new insights that can be derived from it mounts.