Late last year the UK Digital Curation Center (DCC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) issued a major report prepared by Ralvo Ruusalepp titled "A Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data" which somehow I missed; this looks to be an excellent comparative international policy analysis of data sharing and reuse issues. This report is at:

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/reports/Data_Sharing_Report.pdf



My thanks to Gavin Baker at Peter Suber's indispensible Open Access News blog for the pointer to this.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI