Nature Medicine
February 2011, Volume 17 No 2
http://www.nature.com/nm/index.html

Editorial
The scientific social network
doi:10.1038/nm0211-137

A joint statement from 17 funding agencies urges biomedical researchers to openly share data obtained from population-based studies. Although this will foster more collaboration, new web technologies need to be harnessed, and the attribution of credit must change to facilitate this transition.