Open data facilitate resilience in science during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sydne Record; Marta A. Jarzyna; Brady Hardiman; Andrew D. Richardson

doi:10.1002/fee.2468

Open data facilitate resilience in science during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sydne Record, Marta A. Jarzyna, Brady Hardiman, Andrew D. Richardson

Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, School of

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	76-77
Number of pages	2
Journal	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2468
State	Published - Mar 2022

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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