So close and yet so far: Overcoming hurdles for publishing long-term and large-scale data

There are plenty of excuses for not being able to publish data. Here are ours: 1) we didn’t know we needed to publish data when the project began, 2) collaborations are wonderful but slow things down, 3) publications using the data are not out yet, 4) we don’t have time or funding for data management, 5) independent datasets were not collected with the collective in mind, 6) consistently naming hundreds of species is hard, 7) datasets are continually being updated. Sound familiar!?! Come hear how we are moving beyond our excuses.