Community Action on FAIR Data will Fuel a Revolution in Materials Research

Understand

Data - arguably the most important product of worldwide materials research investment - are rarely shared.

• The small and biased proportion of results published are buried in plots and text licensed by journals.
• This situation wastes resources, hinders innovation, and, in the current era of data-driven discovery, is no longer tenable.
• In this comment, we identify opportunities for synergistic, collaborative, and global actions to assemble large quantities of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) (1) materials data.