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Calls for greater data access and research transparency have emerged on many fronts within professional social science. For example, the American Political Science Association (APSA) recently adopted new guidelines for data access and research transparency. APSA has also appointed the Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) ad hoc committee to continue exploring these issues. DA-RT sponsored this symposium. In addition, funding agencies like the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have expanded requirements for data management and data distribution. These pressures present challenges to researchers, but they also present opportunities.

Calls for greater data access and research transparency have emerged on many fronts within professional social science. For example, the American Political Science Association (APSA) recently adopted new guidelines for data access and research transparency. APSA has also appointed the Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) ad hoc committee to continue exploring these issues. DA-RT sponsored this symposium. In addition, funding agencies like the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have expanded requirements for data management and data distribution. These pressures present challenges to researchers, but they also present opportunities. Adapted from the source document.

In August, Index on Censorship's East European researcher Karel Kyncl visited Hungary. He was granted an entry visa in his stateless person's travel document at the Hungarian consulate in London.

To deter the possible maltreatment of minorities, Western mediators are applying the rhetoric of group rights in their efforts to resolve ethnic conflicts in postcommunist Europe. Taking the new Slovak Republic & its Magyar national minority as a case in point, the apparent willingness to engage in legal mediation, rather than physical battles, when ethnic disagreements arise suggests that these Westernized settlements may indeed help avoid the use of force. On the other hand, there is a growing discrepancy between the arbiters' recommendations & the letter of international law, since the latter remains faithful to the classical liberal focus in individual & state -- not group -- rights. 53 References. M. Maguire

Examines sources of conflict between the Slovaks and the Magyars, including language, political representation, demarcation of local administrative boundaries, and self-government.