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Discussion about greater openness in the policymaking and academic communities is emerging all around us. In February 2013, for example, the White House issued a broad statement calling on federal agencies to submit concrete proposals for “increasing access to the results of federally funded scientific research.”1 The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act passed the US House of Representatives on 18 November 2013 (it has not yet been voted on in the Senate).2 In academia, multiple questions are arising about how to preserve and make accessible the “deluge of (digital) data” scientific research produces and how to make research more transparent.3 For instance, on 13–14 June 2013, a meeting to address “Data Citation and Research Transparency Standards for the Social Sciences” was convened by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and attended by opinion leaders from across the social science disciplines.4 In November 2014, ICPSR hosted “Integrating Domain Repositories into the National Data Infrastructure,” a follow-up workshop that gathered together representatives from emerging national infrastructures for data and publications.
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