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Confusion over publisher’s pioneering open-data rules

The Public Library of Science’s open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.

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Van Noorden, R. Confusion over publisher’s pioneering open-data rules. Nature 515, 478 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/515478a

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