[Esip-preserve] Esip-preserve Digest, Vol 61, Issue 7

[Al Fleig]

Concern for data preservation shows up in unusual
places.

The March 2014 Issue of* Monitor on Psychology* (Vol 45 No 3 page 13)
contains the following note


*"The original data behind most*

*published papers may be inaccessible*
*20 years post-publication,* finds a study
led by a University of British Columbia
researcher. Scientists requested data
sets from 516 randomly selected studies
published from two to 22 years ago.
They found that the odds of a data
set being available fell by 17 percent
per year, and that by 20 years post-
publication 80 per cent of data obtained
through publicly funded research is
inaccessible due to such problems as old
email addresses and obsolete storage
devices. The authors say these results
demonstrate the urgent need for policies
mandating data sharing via public
archives. (*Current Biology, *Dec 19)."

Now, how do you feel about that?

Al


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>    1. Oh Goody - A Scientific American Article on       Plagarism
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> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:08:09 -0500
> From: Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Esip-preserve] Oh Goody - A Scientific American Article on
>         Plagarism
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> The new Scientific American issue has an article on
> plagiarism in the biomedical arena based on text string
> comparisons:
>
> Garner, S., 2014: The Case of the Stolen Words,
> Sci. Am., Vol. 310, No. 2, (March, 2014), pp. 65-67.
>
> The author created software to compare relatively
> long text strings from different sources to see how
> similar they were.  Eventual result: more plagarism
> than expected, with both professional and economic
> consequences.
>
> It's also interesting that the author notes that biomedical
> researchers use much more jargon, while his background
> in physics used equations (and, one might expect, math
> text which is not as simple to parse as other text).  He comments
> [p. 65] that "In physics, basic equations govern most everything.
> In medicine, there are no universal equations -- just many
> observations, some piecewise understanding, and a tremendous
> amount of jargon."
>
> This may suggest that the semantic web approach that relies
> on text strings (even embedded in tags) may have more
> difficulty helping with searches in disciplines that rely on strongly
> mathematical algorithms.
>
> Bruce b.
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> See
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> http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/27/how_nonsense_papers_ended_up_in_respected_scientific_journals.html
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