<div dir="ltr">If your research has been funded by the taxpayer, there's a good chance you'll be encouraged to publish your results on an open access basis – free at point of publication and with reuse and redistribution rights.<br>
<br>This final article makes publicly available the hypotheses, interpretations and conclusions of your research. But what about the data that led you to those results and conclusions? <font color="#ff0000"><b>Isn't the underlying data just as important to support the quality of the findings?<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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