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The Open Data/ChemSpider debate is continuing,\nand Noel wondered in the ChemSpider Blog item on the\nOpen Data spectra in ChemSpider. The spectra in ChemSpider come from four persons,\ntwo of which released their data as Open Data (Robert and Jean-Claude)\nand two as proprietary data.

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One of the two is Gary who expressed his concerns in the ChemSpider blog\nthat people would not cite his contributions if he would release the data as Open Data:

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In principle, someone could download an assortment of spectra for a given molecule, calculate some other spectra,\nand then write a paper without ever recording a single NMR spectrum of their own. Would they then include the\nindividual who deposited the spectra as a co-author or even acknowledge the source of the spectra that they used?\nWho knows.

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It is a misconception that releasing your Open Data will cause a situation that your scientific work is not acknowledged\n(citing statistics is the crude mechanism we use for that). First of all, using results without acknowledgment is called\nplagiarism (which is ethically wrong by any standard). But this is not a feature of Open Data, it is found in any\nform of science. Recall Herr Schön.

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Some months back I advised an other chemical database who had similar concerns, and I pointed the owners,\nlike I commented to Gary, to the CC-BY license which has an explicit\nAttribution (BY) clause:

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Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way\nthat suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

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Using this license, plagiarism would not even just be (scientifically) unethical, it would be illegal too, because it would\nbrake the license agreement. This even allows one to bring the case to court, if you like. (BTW, I was recently informed\nthat the database had switched to the CC-BY license!)

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