BMJ Open updates its "Resources for data management and sharing" recommendations and includes BioSharing

BMJ Open has updated its “Resources for data management and sharing” document to include more details about data sharing - including a link to the BioSharing Catalogue of policies and standards.

BMJ Open is an online-only, open access general medical journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas. The journal publishes all research study types, from study protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small or potentially low-impact studies. Publishing procedures are built around fully open peer review and continuous publication, publishing research online as soon as the article is ready.

BMJ Open aims to promote transparency in the publication process by publishing reviewer reports and previous versions of manuscripts as pre-publication histories. Authors are asked to pay article-processing charges on acceptance; the ability to pay does not influence editorial decisions.

Resources for data management and sharing
Faster progress in improving health, better value for money and higher quality science were the three key benefits stressed by the UK's Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the US National Institutes of Health and others, who articulated their commitment to sharing data in a joint statement in 2011, and have developed policies and tools to assist their researchers to do so.

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