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How to protect research data

Contingency plans are needed to shore up important information.
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  1. Esme Hedley

    1. Esme Hedley is a science writer based in London.

Amid fears of research data disappearing for political and technical reasons, scientists, librarians and archivists are calling out weaknesses in how the scholarly record is being preserved.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01034-x

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  • Clarification 11 June 2025: An earlier version of this story omitted part of the name of the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.

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