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Arzberger, Peter, Peter Schroeder, Anne Beaulieu, Geof Bowker, Kathleen Casey, Leif Laaksonen, David Moorman, Paul Uhlir, Paul Wouters. Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic, and Social Development. Data Science Journal (CODATA). Vol. 3, pp 135-152, 2004 (online 29-11-04). [http://www.datasciencejournal.org/]


On March 19, 2004, Science1 published An International Framework to Promote Access to Data, written by the OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data.

The Summary of this Article is at:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/303/5665/1777?ijkey=sgWI1mlejCudY&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

The Full Text of this Article can be found be visiting:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/303/5665/1777?ijkey=sgWI1mlejCudY&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

Please feel free to send comments to Peter Arzberger at parzberg@ucsd.edu.


The Final Report of the OECD Follow Up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data: Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic and Social Development has been submitted to the Committee on Science and Technology Policy of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (March 2003). Please contact Peter Arzberger (parzberg@ucsd.edu) if you are interested in a copy.

A summary of the case studies of the group, "Promise and Practice in Data Sharing", is now available. It can also be viewed at the following location: http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi/paul/datasharing.pdf.

A link to an article written by Miriam A. Drake entitled, "Free Public Access to Science - Will It Happen", appears on-line at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030707-2.shtml.


1.   Arzberger, P., Beaulieu, A., Bowker, G., Casey, K., Laaksonen, L., Moorman, D. Uhlir, P., Wouters, P., An International Framework to Promote Access to Data, Science , Vol 303, Issue 5665, 1777-1778, 19 March 2004.