Open data/External Links

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Open data [r]: Data that are publicly available for use, reuse and redistribution, typically for free via the World Wide Web. [e]

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Provides an introductory overview of Open notebook science, focused on its practitioners. Covers the possibility of being scooped and exposes the benefits of open research in most of its variants: open science, open data, open access, open source.
A lively discussion of the article is here, which broadens the subject to a comparison of open research and open journalism. Participants: The author, her editor, scientists, educators and patient advocates.
An article (April 2010) by Amy Dockser Marcus in the Wall Street Journal, giving an overview about recent developments in Open Data