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ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 61-69Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.01.003
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Environmental assessment; Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Bibliometrics; Informatics; Crowdsourcing
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- EU [226273, 603378]
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Responsible care and management of Earth's resources requires scientific support, but the pool of under-used research is growing rapidly. Environmental science research studies describe associations between variables (e.g. statistical relationships between stressors and responses). We propose open-access and online sharing of such associations. This concept differs from various efforts around the world to promote sharing of primary research data, but holds similar goals of improved use of existing knowledge. The initiative is made possible by recent developments in information technology and evolving online culture (e.g. crowdsourcing and citizen science). We have begun to connect existing projects that catalog and store associations, thereby moving toward a single virtual repository. Researchers and decision makers. may share and re-use associations for myriad purposes, including: increasing efficiency and timeliness of systematic reviews, environmental assessments and meta-analyses, identifying knowledge gaps and research opportunities, providing evolved metrics of research impact, and demonstrating connections between research and environmental improvement. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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