Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Policy on Sharing Publication-Related Materials, Data and Software
Principle
Publishing a scientific paper is a quid pro quo in which authors receive credit and establish priority in exchange for disclosure of their scientific findings. A responsibility of authorship is to make available materials, databases, and software integral to the publication so
that others may validate or falsify the results and extend them in new directions (1). Indeed, the mission of HHMI is to move biomedical science forward, and broad dissemination of research tools and reagents created by its investigators very much supports that mission.
Responsibilities of HHMI Authors
Upon publication of their work, investigators are expected to make materials, data and databases, and software integral to their publication freely available for research use by other scientists and to handle requests expeditiously. The determination of which items are integral
rather than peripheral to a published work will in some cases require expert judgment; it would be useful if reviewers and editors helped make this determination prior to publication in cases of ambiguity. For more specifics see:
http://www.hhmi.org/about/ogc/downloads/Sharing.pdf
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