Boris Barbour

![COSIG Logo][1] ### **Anyone can do post-publication peer review.** ### **Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.** ### **Anyone can do forensic metascience.** ### **Anyone can sleuth.** However, investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature often requires domain-specific knowledge that not everyone will have.

Susanne Stevens raises an excellent point in the first rapid response. The announcement of the policy of mandatory depositing of data in a "publicly accessible depository" makes it sound like the public will have unconditional access to the data, as it should. But the example given of the Vivli platform raises the worry that access may in fact be subject to all manner of gatekeeping and obstruction. Can the editors clarify whether unconditional public access *to the data* will be mandatory or not?

Denise-Marie Ordway | The Journalist's Resource PubPeer, a website where researchers critique one another’s work, has played a key role in helping journalists uncover scientific misconduct in several prominent investigative stories in recent years — including the student newspaper series that led to Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s recent resignation.