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... The National Academies held a workshop in February 2002 that was sponsored by the Board of Life Sciences entitled "Sharing Publication-related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences." Tom Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, was the chair of the committee that organized this event. The final report from the workshop contained the following statement: The publication of scientific information is intended to move science forward.
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... Pub~cston therefore creates important obUgaDons on the pad of the authors that need to be enforced, both through the grant agencies that fund the research and through the journals that publish the work. ~ is only with this kind of sharing, enforced by the scienD6c community that the pubUc~ generous support of knowledge production through scanted research can produce its Tended Benedict.


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