“Most Nobel Intent readers are familiar with the current effort to make research articles open access, but there is also a parallel effort to develop public archives for the research data behind them. We’ve addressed how funding questions make this a difficult issue, and the difficulty in preserving raw experimental material (also limited by money), but the primary obstacle to widespread adoption of existing public research data repositories appears to be simply time and effort …” (more)
[Kyle Niemeyer, Nobel Intent, 26 August]