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Open Access 01-12-2016 | Editorial

Reproductive Health is pleased to announce a mandatory open data policy in the journal

Authors: Natasha Salaria, Amye Kenall, José M. Belizán

Published in: Reproductive Health | Issue 1/2015

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The field of global health is evolving and moving forward from not just securing open access publication to aid in the dissemination of research but further still, making the data underpinning the results of that publication open. Funders¹ in the field, and recently the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) [1], are increasingly requiring that researchers make data produced during their grants publicly accessible. …

Such funders and international organisations include, for example, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, WHO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council (MRC), US National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others.

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Title: Reproductive Health is pleased to announce a mandatory open data policy in the journal
Authors: Natasha Salaria
Amye Kenall
José M. Belizán
Publication date: 01-12-2016
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Reproductive Health / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1742-4755
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-016-0190-4

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