FTP INTERNET DATA ARCHIVING: A Cousin for PSYCOLOQUY

Abstract

American Psychological Association (APA) journals do not publish raw data, hence data are effectively inaccessible. I propose that authors of research papers should transfer their data to an Internet site so it can be accessed over Internet by anonymous ftp. I suggest that such data archiving would (1) make fraud easier to detect, (2) encourage scientific criticism and (3) aid the scientific process in general. Nor should it be difficult to implement.