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© 2020 Garcia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

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Everything we do today is becoming more and more reliant on the use of computers. The field of biology is no exception; but most biologists receive little or no formal preparation for the increasingly computational aspects of their discipline. In consequence, informal training courses are often needed to plug the gaps; and the demand for such training is growing worldwide. To meet this demand, some training programs are being expanded, and new ones are being developed. Key to both scenarios is the creation of new course materials. Rather than starting from scratch, however, it’s sometimes possible to repurpose materials that already exist. Yet finding suitable materials online can be difficult: They’re often widely scattered across the internet or hidden in their home institutions, with no systematic way to find them. This is a common problem for all digital objects. The scientific community has attempted to address this issue by developing a set of rules (which have been called the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable [FAIR] principles) to make such objects more findable and reusable. Here, we show how to apply these rules to help make training materials easier to find, (re)use, and adapt, for the benefit of all.

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Title
Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR
Author
Garcia, Leyla; nice Batut; Burke, Melissa L; Kuzak, Mateusz; Psomopoulos, Fotis; Arcila, Ricardo; Attwood, Teresa K; Beard, Niall; Carvalho-Silva, Denise; Dimopoulos, Alexandros C; Dominguez del Angel, Victoria; Dumontier, Michel; Gurwitz, Kim T; Krause, Roland; McQuilton, Peter; Loredana Le Pera; Morgan, Sarah L; Rauste, ivi; Via, Allegra; Kahlem, Pascal; Rustici, Gabriella; van Gelder, W G; Palagi, Patricia M
First page
e1007854
Section
Editorial
Publication year
2020
Publication date
May 2020
Publisher
Public Library of Science
ISSN
1553734X
e-ISSN
15537358
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2460759838
Copyright
© 2020 Garcia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.