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When your research data is no longer of use to you,

And your career goals are moving you on,

Before you abandon your data,

Stop a while, consider, could that be wrong?

 

Your data took effort to produce

Calibrating equipment, reagents and so on

Not to mention the hours spent looking at spreadsheets

Just to find out the hypothesis was wrong

 

But could your data still be useful to others?

Maybe someone working in a different field?

If they knew of your data, they’d celebrate

And perhaps turn a cartwheel*

 

But how can you show off your data?

When it seems so small and remote?

By sending it to a journal that’s open

And which allows you publish a Data Note.

 

So when you are done with your data

And before you archive it away

Send it in to F1000Research

And you might just end up saving the day!

 

Data Notes can be submitted free of charge to F1000Research until the end of July, so take the plunge and get your data out there!

 

*This is poetic licence, researchers are much more likely to invite you to collaborate than turn a cartwheel, but we could be wrong….

 

This poem previously appeared in BioNews.