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Sara Chan writes "In a landmark ruling, the UK's Information
Commissioner's Office has decided that researchers at a university
must make all their data available to the public. The decision follows
from a three-year battle by mathematician Douglas J. Keenan, who wants
the data to do his own analysis on it. The university researchers have
had the data for many years, and have published several papers using
the data, but had refused to make the data available. The data in this
case pertains to global warming, but the decision is believed to apply
to any field: scientists at universities, which are all public in the
UK, can now not claim data from publicly-funded research as their
private property." There's more at the BBC, at Nature Climate
Feedback, and at Keenan's site.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/21/2156215/UK-University-Researchers-Must-Make-Data-Available