This paper outlines the incentives for and academic health centers' (AHCs) critical role in enabling, encouraging, and rewarding data sharing. It discusses the unique role that leaders of medical schools and academic-affiliated hospitals can play in supporting this transformation of the research enterprise and proposes that AHCs can and should lead the transition towards a culture of biomedical data sharing. Click here to download.
Piwowar HA, Becich MJ, Bilofsky H, Crowley RS, 2008 Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers. PLoS Med 5(9): e183. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050183. http://www.plosmedicine.org/home.action
