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The editorial published in the latest issue of Conservation Biology, should be of interest to members of this list. It advocates for a (much needed) paradigm shift in ecological/conservation research, much like the culture changes that medical and molecular biology research have already undergone, to ensure the sharing of raw data to facilitate systematic reviews for the sake of promoting evidence-based. In order to make this paradigm shift a reality, the platform and database infrastructure for data sharing needs to be created, and the buy-in from journals and academic institutions needs to be secured. Could the Conservation Commons lead the way in this? 
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a new paper by MICHAEL C. CALVER AND J. STUART BRADLEY published in the volume 24 issue 3 of the Conservation Biology comparing the number of citations of open access and non-open access papers in six journals and four books published since 2000 to test whether open access increases number of citations overall and increases citations made by authors in developing countries.
