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. 2022 Mar 28;20(3):e3001606.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001606. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Responsible handling of ethics in data publication

Daniella Lowenberg  1 , Iratxe Puebla  2
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Responsible handling of ethics in data publication

Daniella Lowenberg et al. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

A global working group has developed recommendations for the responsible handling of the growing range of ethics cases related to data publication, but further community work is needed toward a responsible and cohesive data publishing ecosystem.

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Conflict of interest statement

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DL and IP are co-leads of the FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Working Group. DL is Product Manager for the data repository Dryad and PI for the Make Data Count initiative. IP is Facilitation & Integrity Officer at COPE and a member of the Dryad Board of Directors. DL and IP are prior employees of PLOS.

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