Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already been carried out. FigShare allows you to share all of your data, negative results and unpublished figures. In doing this, other researchers will not duplicate the work, but instead may publish with your previously wasted figures, or offer collaboration opportunities and feedback on preprint figures. Upload all of your unpublished data, including negative data, provided that you believe it to be real data. ie. The experiment did not go wrong. Unless we as scientists publish all of our data, we will never achieve access to the sum of all scientific knowledge. All data is searchable, citable with persistent identifiers and taggable with all tags linked. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
4:53 AM
