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Science 12 February 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5404, pp. 914 - 915
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5404.914b
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SCIENCE IN SOCIETY:
Plan for Divulging Raw Data Eases Fears

Jocelyn Kaiser

Congress dropped a bombshell on the scientific community last fall, when it quietly passed a law that appeared to open up to public scrutiny the data of all federally funded researchers. Now the Administration has drawn up a blueprint for implementing this law that would limit its reach to "published" data used to develop policy. Although relieved, agency officials and scientific groups say the Administration must still clarify gray areas in a rule that threatens to undermine scientists' sovereignty over one of their most precious resources: raw data.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)