Salguero-Gomez, RobertoJackson, J.Gascoigne, S.J.L.2025-07-312025-07-312021-09Salguero-Gomez, R, Jackson, J & Gascoigne, S J L 2021, 'Four key challenges in the open-data revolution', Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 90, no. 9, pp. 2000-2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.135670021-8790ORCID: /0000-0002-2984-1810/work/169242599https://hdl.handle.net/2164/25789We are grateful to the thousands of animal ecologists who routinely make their data open access and contribute them to open\u2010access repositories, as well as the founding agencies, societies and journals that support open\u2010access policies. Much of our own thinking regarding open access was drastically shaped by the generosity of M. Franco and J. Silvertown (founders of COMPADRE), who gave RSG their data for 100 plant demographic models without conditions. Without their gest, we would not have considered creating COMADRE and PADRINO, or setting them all open access. We have benefitted from conversations with P. Petraitis, S. Chamberlain, O. Jones, J. Che\u2010Castaldo, D. Conde, A. Scheuerlein, D. Hodgson, T. Knight and many others.5608040engFAIRbig datademographyindividual-level datainteroperabilityopen accessornithologyreproducible researchAnimalsBirdsEcologyLongitudinal StudiesQ Science (General)Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAnimal Science and ZoologyQ1Journal article10.1111/1365-2656.13567http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85114897352&partnerID=MN8TOARShttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114897352&partnerID=8YFLogxK909