for research purposes and at no cost) and readily accessible through other means (for example, on-line). Moreover, when it is necessary to enable further research, central and integral information should be made available in a form that enables it to be manipulated, analyzed, and combined with other scientific data.

Principle 3. If publicly accessible repositories for data have been agreed on by a community of researchers and are in general use, the relevant data should be deposited in one of them by the time of publication.

Recommendation 1. The scientific community should continue to be involved in crafting appropriate terms of any legislation that provides additional database protection.