Randy Schekman, Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, has announced that a paper has been pulled from its publication for violating an NIH embargo on data sharing. From the announcement:
Although the scientific community is often viewed as self-correcting, the systemfailed for this paper. It appears that not all of the coauthors were aware of the embargo agreement, and the referees and the editors did not know that a serious breach of scientific conduct and NIH policy had taken place.
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
