[meteorite-list] Data Are Lost to Science at 'Astonishing Rate'

[Paul H.]

>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.