"The Frankfurter Rundschau reports in a short notice that the University of Heidelberg Medical School has decided that a medical dissertation that has plagiarism on over 75% of the pages (and most of the plagiarism is from the habilitation of the doctoral advisor) is perfectly all right. Oh, it is not good scientific practice, but the doctorate will not be rescinded and the grade will not be lowered."
What happens to all the scientific research that doesn't yield a dramatic outcome or, worse, the opposite of what researchers had hoped? It ends up stuffed in some lab drawer. This information -- call it dark data -- must be set free.
Y. Li, G. Kennedy, F. Davies, and J. Hunter. Proceedings of the role of digital libraries in a time of global change, and 12th international conference on Asia-Pacific digital libraries, page 179--188. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, (2010)