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Sharing phylogenetic data: even more vital for morphological data
Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
Date: 2013-10-31 09:00 AM – 09:15 AM
Last modified: 2013-10-07
Abstract
I spent over 3 years of my PhD studies trying to re-use data from published scientific literature. From this experience I quickly learned that the current barriers to successful re-use are many and varied. In this talk I will reflect upon (1) the discoverability of phylogenetic data - we simply don't know exactly how many studies there are, or exactly where they are (2) the accessibility of phylogenetic data - less than 4% is deposited in publicly accessible data repositories and only ~11% of phylogeny papers are in CC-BY open access journals (3) the re-usability of phylogenetic data - whilst data may be 'available' or 'visible' in part or whole in some form for most papers, it is rarely in an immediately re-usable form. I give evidence on the prevalence and significance of these three aspects from the point of view of morphological data, and argue that data sharing is even more vital in this area. I also point out current publishing trends in phylogenetics that may prove surprising to some: PLOS ONE and Zootaxa are now two of the biggest publishers (articles per year) of phylogenetic studies.