>From personal experience, I do not need a scientific study to know that it is a real and utterly frustrating problem in geology and paleontology.
Data are lost to science at 'astonishing rate.' EurekAlert, December 19, 2013 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/cp-dal121213.php Where Have All the Data Gone? (Twenty years after publication in 1991, 80 percent of the data behind scientific papers was no longer available. Karen Hopkin reports) Scientific American, December 19, 2013 http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=where-have-all-the-data-gone-13-12-19 The paper is: Vines, T. H., A. Y. K. Albert, and others, 2014, The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age. Current Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.014 http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982213014000 http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2813%2901400-0 Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
