Data Availability and Access

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Overview

The objective of this activity is to reflect the impacts of data sharing on reproducibility and replicability in science.

Instructions

PubMed is an online repository of over 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. It is a useful resource for researchers (and the public!) to identify peer-reviewed and trusted research on a given biomedical topic.

Go to PubMed at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ and search for 3-4 research papers in your area of interest (avoiding review articles or comments/editorials!) .

Skim them over, then consider the following questions:

  1. Do the papers you selected have a data availability statement? If so, was it easy to find?
  2. If the data is available for the paper, does the paper provide a working link or means to access that data? Where is it stored?
  3. If the data is available for the paper, is there a user agreement or data use agreement easily findable, or even present?
  4. If the data is not available for the paper, would you consider the work reproducible?
Use the box below to explain your reflections on data availability on existing literature in your topic of interest. The content in this page will not be saved, it is simply a blank space for you to responsd. If you want to save your notes for this page, please copy+paste them into your preferred information management system. in the text box provided.


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