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Six tips for data sharing in the age of the coronavirus

Researchers are rushing to pool resources and data sets to tackle the pandemic, but the new era of openness comes with concerns around privacy, ownership and ethics.
  1. Virginia Gewin

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Before the coronavirus pandemic struck, researchers were often cautious about sharing their data — if not outright unwilling. “Historically, it’s been seen as a challenge because researchers put a lot of work into collecting data and want to make sure that they receive enough credit,” says Mahsa Shabani, who studies privacy law and bioethics at Ghent University in Belgium.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01516-0

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