Data Archiving overview
Data Archiving overview Archive of research data is the long-term storage of scientific research data such as natural sciences, social sciences, and life sciences. Different journals have different policies regarding the amount of data and methods that researchers need to store in public archives, and what is actually archived varies greatly from discipline to discipline. Similarly, major grant providers have different attitudes towards public archiving of data. In general, the tradition of science is that publications contain enough information to allow other researchers to duplicate and test their work. In recent years, this approach has become increasingly tense, as research in some areas has relied on large datasets that cannot be easily replicated independently. Archiving data is more important in some areas than in others. In some areas, all the data needed to reproduce a work is already available in journal articles. Drug development needs to ge...