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Research data lost to the sands of time

April 9, 2014 / Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting article, not on link rot (a topic FGI has been tracking for some time), but on *data rot*. In a recent article in Current Biology, researchers examined the availability of data from 516 studies between 2 and 22 years old. They found the following: that the odds of a data set being […]

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