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Working towards harmonised peer-review of controlled-access data at human data repositories

Scientific Data is exploring how peer-review mechanisms for sensitive human data can be improved. Here, we outline some of the initial feedback we received from leaders of human data repositories (HDRs), and some innovative alternatives to peer-review.  Read more

Scientific Data to complement and promote public data repositories

Scientific Data to complement and promote public data repositories

Scientific Data will be a forum for publications about datasets, but will not be a repository for primary datasets. Primary data associated with Data Descriptors will be stored in one or more external data repositories. Why this distinction?  Read more