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h1. Evidence Promoting Good Data Management
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If you have any additional examples that you would like to share, please email them to: rdm.c4dm at gmail.com
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h2. Anecdotal Tales Of Lost Data
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h3. Recovery of Overwritten Hard Disk Data
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5 October 2005 Linux Forums - http://tinyurl.com/8t7uaop
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Hi, a friend of mine just overwrote two months of her
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PhD thesis with an older version. I know recovery of
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overwritten data is possible, but wonder if I'd need
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special hardware to do it. Does anyone know something
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about this ?
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Thank You.
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h3. Stolen laptop had PhD research
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19 March 2008 Surrey Leader - http://tinyurl.com/9hmtlv4
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Thirty-five minutes spent in Langley’s Willowbrook
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Shopping Centre cost a Surrey woman much more than
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she had anticipated.
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Langley RCMP say that while she was shopping from
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1-1:35 p.m. last Monday, someone broke into her
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vehicle and stole a number of items, including
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a Mac iBook laptop containing the research she had 
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compiled as she worked towards her PhD.
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“All that information was on that computer and she
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has no back-up file,” said Langley RCMP spokesman
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Cpl. Brenda Marshall.
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Google images of "Langley Willowbrook":https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=50&hl=en&q=Langley+Willowbrook+Shopping+Centre&&tbm=isch
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h3. Happiness is the return of a stolen computer, with data intact
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27 May 2010 The Press, NZ - http://tinyurl.com/38sznnh
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Never has a man been so happy to see a computer full of data
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spreadsheets.
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Claudio De Sassi's world fell apart when a car containing almost three
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years work towards his PhD was stolen two weeks ago.
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De Sassi, a Canterbury University academic, could not hide his joy
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yesterday as police reunited him with his stolen laptop and backpack.
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h3. Thugs steal Christmas, doctoral dreams
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22 December 2010 KRQE - http://tinyurl.com/9a5j56f
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A tiny television sits where a big screen used to, and a Christmas tree
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stands with little underneath it...
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Even worse than the gifts, the crooks stole a MacBook Pro laptop and a
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LaCie hard drive.
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The hard drive had … her dissertation and nearly seven years of
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research for her doctoral degree she was set to fnish in a few weeks.
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Osuna had everything backed up on a separate hard drive in a safe, but
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burglars made off with that too.
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"All I could think about is that all that time is gone, all that effort,
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everything is gone," Osuna said.
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h3. Laptop Stolen From OSU Doctoral Student
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NBC4i January 06 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/bmybv9x
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...her car was broken into and her chrome Mac book pro was stolen.
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She has a back-up for all but the last six months of research, but the
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most important part of the research had happened recently.
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h3. Lost Thesis Poster
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http://twitpic.com/45t7vu
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!http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/45t7vu.jpg!
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h3. Recovery
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PostgraduateForum.com > Current PhD Students, PhD Life. 29 September 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/ct5e2no
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I've 'lost' my thesis
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Yes, I 'lost' my thesis today, at around 12:42pm (thesis RIP), microsoft word couldn't
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cope with the size of the document and my file got corrupted. I'd removed a small chunk
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of it and did some formatting to decrease its size yesterday but that obviously didn't
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stop it happening. After a few hours trying to recover it, I gave in and called for
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help. I then found out that, even if I'd managed to recover it, it probably wouldn't
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be the whole document, there could be parts missing, formatting gone awol, etc No sweat
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though, I regularly back up my work so it's just today's work that's been lost, well
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morning and lunch really as I spent the afternoon attempting to savage it,-) bit
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stressful but hey ho, not the end of the world. So for those of you who don't back your
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work up, start doing it now! And regularly! I can't possibly imagine what would have
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happened to me if I'd really lost everything weeks before submission...
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h2. The Lost Laptop Problem
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* 2010 Ponemon Institute report for Intel re. US laptops
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** On average, 2.3% of laptops assigned to employees are lost each year
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** In education & research that rises to 3.7%, with 10.8% of laptops being lost before the end of their useful life
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*** ~3 years i.e. within 1 PhD of allocation!
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** 75% lost outside the workplace
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* Very similar results from 2011 European report!
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Intel 2010, The Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Problem - http://tinyurl.com/8c9m4bn
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Intel 2011, The Billion Euro Laptop Problem - http://tinyurl.com/9wpbxn9
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h2. Laptop Reliability
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* 2011 PC World Laptop Reliability Survey from 63,000 readers:
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** 22.6% had signifcant problems during the product's lifetime
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** Of which...
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*** 19% had OS problems ~1 in 25 of all laptops
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*** 18% had HDD problems ~1 in 25 of all laptops
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*** 10% PSU problems ~1 in 50 of all laptops
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PC World 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/876qza5
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h2. Hard Disk Failures
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* Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population
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** Usenix conference on File and Storage Technologies 2007 (FAST '07)
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** Eduardo Pinheiro & Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Google Inc.
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* Data collected from over 100,000 disk drives at Google
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* As part of repairs procedures:
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** ~13% of disk drives replaced over 3 years
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** ~20% of disk drives replaced over 4 years
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Article: http://tinyurl.com/octz6b
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[[Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population|More info]]
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h2. Data management in the cloud
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See JISC/DCC document "Curation In The Cloud" - http://tinyurl.com/8nogtmv
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Service agreements may give wide-ranging rights to the data service.
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h3. Google Terms Of Service
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1 March 2012 Google Terms of Service : http://tinyurl.com/89dc9fa
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When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give
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Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,
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reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from
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translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your
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content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly
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perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you
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grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting,
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and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license
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continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a
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business listing you have added to Google Maps).
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h3. Microsoft Services Agreement
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19 October 2012 Microsoft services agreement : http://tinyurl.com/8e4kucy
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When you upload your content to the services, you agree that it may
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be used, modifed, adapted, saved, reproduced, distributed, and
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displayed to the extent necessary to protect you and to provide, protect
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and improve Microsoft products and services. For example, we may
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occasionally use automated means to isolate information from email,
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chats, or photos in order to help detect and protect against spam and
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malware, or to improve the services with new features that makes them
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easier to use. When processing your content, Microsoft takes steps to
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help preserve your privacy.
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h2. Archiving Data
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h3. BBC Domesday Project
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1986 Project to do a modern-day Domesday book (early crowd-sourcing)
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* Used “BBC Master” computers with data on laserdisc
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* Collected 147,819 pages of text and 23,225 photos
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* Media expiring and obsolete technology put the data at risk!
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Domesday Reloaded (2011)
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* Required emulation of software
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* Images restored from original masters
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* http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday
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To allow long-term access to data
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* Don't use obscure formats!
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* Don't use obscure media!
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* Don't rely on technology being available!
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* Do keep original source material!
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Google images for "BBC Domesday":https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&q=bbc+domesday
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h2. Sharing Data
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"Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate":http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000308
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h2. Related Media
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h3. Disk Drives Break
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"DataCent collection of disk drive failure sounds":http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
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h3. Buildings burn down
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"Southampton University Mountbatten Building Fire":http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Southampton%20University%20Mountbatten%20Building%20Fire
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h3. Laptops Break / Get Broken
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* "Shot laptop":http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/tag/laptop-destroyed/
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* "Google images of broken laptops":https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=broken%20laptop&um=1&tbm=isch
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h2. More To Read
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Schroeder, Bianca, and Garth A. Gibson. "Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you.":http://www.usenix.org/event/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder.pdf
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Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). 2007.
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Lancaster, Larry, and Alan Rowe. "Measuring Real World Data Availability.":http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa2001/tech/full_papers/lancaster/lancaster_html/
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Proceedings of the LISA 2001 15th Systems Administration Conference. 2001.
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McCullough, Bruce D., Kerry Anne McGeary, and Teresa D. Harrison. "Lessons from the JMCB Archive.":http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mcb/summary/v038/38.4mccullough.html
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Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 38.4 (2006): 1093-1107.
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Gleditsch, N.P., C. Metelits and H. Strand. 2003. Posting your data: Will you be scooped or will you be famous?.
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Int. Stud. Perspect. 4:89–97.
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Freckleton, R.P., P. Hulme, P. Giller and G. Kerby. 2005. "The changing face of applied ecology.":http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.00969.x/full
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J. Appl. Ecol. 42:1–3.
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Albers, S. "Editorial: Well Documented Articles Achieve More Impact":http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1568022
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BuR Business Research Journal, Vol. 2, No.2, May 2009
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Anderson, Richard G., et al. "The role of data/code archives in the future of economic research.":http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501780801915574
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Journal of Economic Methodology 15.1 (2008): 99-119.
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Evanschitzky, Heiner, et al. "Replication research's disturbing trend.":http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296306002347
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Journal of Business Research 60.4 (2007): 411-415.