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Our Genome in Common: Genomic Data Release Policies and the Academic Librarian
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, Number 2, April 2003
- pp. 293-306
- 10.1353/pla.2003.0025
- Article
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This paper provides a history of genomic data release policies and explores these policies' research implications. It also discusses librarians' roles in establishing and clarifying access to those data. Finally, it proposes that librarians advocate free and open access to basic genomic data.