Public repositories need serious funding

Publishing descriptions of non-public clinical datasets: proposed guidance for researchers, repositories, editors and funding organisations

Sharing of experimental clinical research data usually happens between individuals or research groups rather than via public repositories, in part due to the need to protect research participant privacy. This approach to data sharing makes it difficult to connect journal articles with their underlying datasets and is often insufficient for ensuring access to data in the long term. Voluntary dat...

Funding follows public prejudice

cancer in this country because we know the primary cause is tobacco. The problem has almost moved from it being a research problem to being a public health problem.' One of the problems facing researchers is that lung cancer patients are more ill by the time they are diagnosed than many other patients. But there has been substantial progress in fighting the disease, at least in men from the hig...

Funding Public Agricultural Research

Funding models for Open Access digital data repositories

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine funding models for Open Access (OA) digital data repositories whose costs are not wholly core funded. Whilst such repositories are free to access, they are not without significant cost to build and maintain and the lack of both full core costs and a direct funding stream through payment-for-use poses a considerable financial challenge, placing t...

Repositories with Public Data about Software Development

Empirical research on software development based on data obtained from project repositories and code forges is increasingly gaining attention in the software engineering research community. The studies in this area typically start by retrieving or monitoring some subset of data found in the repository or forge, and this data is later analyzed to find interesting patterns. However, retrieving in...