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Highlights from the NeuroImage Data Sharing Issue

This week the first part of NeuroImage special issue on Data Sharing was published. It's a great achievement and I am glad to see that more focus is being put on sharing data in our field. However the issue is a mixed bag of papers that describe different types of resources. Some of my friends were confused by this heterogeneity, so I decided to highlight some of the resources presented in the issue. The issue included papers about many data sharing platforms/databases (XNAT Central, LORIS, NIDB, LONI IDA, COINS, UMCD and NeuroVault) that are well known and covered by previous publications. Similarly some datasets (FBIRN and CBFBIRN) also have been previously covered in the literature. I understand that those have been included in the issue for completeness, but I will leave them out in this review. The original art used in the NeuroImage cover. Developmental and aging datasets The issue includes an impressive developmental dataset consisting of 9498 subjects with med