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A path to filled archives

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Reluctance to deposit data is rife among researchers, despite broad agreement on the principle of data sharing. More and better information will reach hitherto empty archives, if professional support is given during data creation, not in a project's final phase.

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  1. Dirk Fleischer is a member of the Kiel data management infrastructure at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany,

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  2. Kai Jannaschk is at Information Systems Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, 24118 Kiel, Germany,

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Fleischer, D., Jannaschk, K. A path to filled archives. Nature Geosci 4, 575–576 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1248

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