{"id":1193,"date":"2016-09-14T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/natures-new-policy-mandates-data-availability-statements\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:49:28","slug":"natures-new-policy-mandates-data-availability-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/natures-new-policy-mandates-data-availability-statements","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s new policy mandates data-availability statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a move to reinforce its long standing support towards data sharing, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/announcement-where-are-the-data-1.20541?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\">Nature <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/announcement-where-are-the-data-1.20541?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\">has announced a new policy mandating data-availability statements<\/a>. From this month onwards, all papers accepted for publication in <em>Nature<\/em> and\u00a012 other Nature titles\u00a0will be required to\u00a0provide a statement reporting whether and how the underlying data in the study can be accessed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authors will need to provide information about the availability of the \u2018minimal data set\u2019 required to interpret, replicate, and build on the results reported in the study. These include details of publicly archived data sets that have been used or generated during the study. In exceptional cases where the data cannot be made available due to privacy issues or third party control, the data statement must clarify this. The new policy also encourages the practice of citing data sets in the reference list, just as published papers are cited, and data sets with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are preferred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement came after a successful trial of the policy at five <em>Nature <\/em>journals \u2014\u00a0<em>Nature Cell Biology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nature Geoscience<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nature Neuroscience<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Nature Physics<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 earlier this year. It is now expected to be adopted by all <em>Nature<\/em> journals by early 2017. With the entire science community gradually embracing data sharing, this policy could be an effective way of ensuring compliance to public data archiving and data sharing mandates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to reinforce its long standing support towards data sharing, Nature has announced a new policy mandating data-availability statements. From this month onwards, all papers accepted for publication in Nature and\u00a012 other Nature titles\u00a0will be required to\u00a0provide a statement reporting whether and how the underlying data in the study can be accessed. 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