Saturday, December 12, 2009

Public Research, Public Data

I'd like to express a simple opinion: if tax money pays for research, the research data should be released to the public. Often you will find in university studies that only the abstract is publicly available and any more detailed information must be paid for separately. It is almost free to move information from one place to another, and hoarding research results until others pay clogs up the flow of ideas from one institution to the next.

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