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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] CHO at museum asks for our help
Date: Monday, September 9, 2019 at 6:37:32 AM
Author: Brenda Baney <b3**At_Symbol_Here**BCUBEDCONSULTING.COM> 		Next by Date:
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (12 articles)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:36:50 -0400
Author: DCHAS Membership Chair

From: DCHAS Membership Chair <membership**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemistry data should be FAIR, proponents say. But getting there will be a long road
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:31:47 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
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I believe that technical data sharing based on FAIR is an important part of the chemical safety picture moving forward. This article on the topic showed up in C&EN this weekend, but has since been buried by articles on the Postdoc experience...

- Ralph

https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Chemistry-data-should-FAIR-proponents/97/i35

Chemistry data should be FAIR, proponents say. But getting there will be a long road

To tame the flood of scientific data, policy makers and researchers want to make them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable

Compared with even 50 years ago, today‰??s chemistry lab is a very different place. More researchers are carrying out more experiments than ever before, using increasingly sophisticated and automated tools and generating a deluge of data.

An analysis of the scientific literature suggests that research output (including articles, books, and data sets) is growing by 8‰??9% a year (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.2015, DOI: 10.1002/asi.23329). But the way data from experiments are shared and reused hasn‰??t kept pace, chemists say. Useful findings and raw data can languish in PhD theses stored in libraries or in PDFs on servers. Some researchers and policy makers would like to change that, pushing for the chemistry community to implement what are called the FAIR principles of data management. Those stakeholders‰?? efforts are being bolstered by funders like the European Research Council (ERC) and the US National Institutes of Health, which are mandating that the science they fund be made open access and have data management plans in place. The ERC has also produced FAIR guidelines for projects funded by Horizon 2020 grants.

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