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# Rule 5. Link your data to your publications as early often  as possible. Whether your "data" include tables, spreadsheets, images, graphs, databases  and/or databases, code,  you should make all as much  of it as possible  available _with_ whatever any  paper that  presents it. Share **If it’s practical and helpful, share  your data as earlyas possible  in your research workflow: as soon as you are done with the analysis or while analysis, even before  you are writing the article. Various data and writing platforms offer easy ways to link or otherwise to include write any article(s) about it.** Your  data can even be cited before (or without) its inclusion  inyour publications. At a _minimum_, zip up and post a package of files (data, codes, documentation on parameters, metadata, license information, and/or lists of links to such) with  a persistent online identifier. paper (see Rule 7).  Many journals now offer standard ways to contribute data to their archives and link it to your paper, often with a persistent identifier, and if the journal hosting your paper doesn't, you can get your own identifier (See Rule 2). identifier.  Whenever possible, embed **embed  citations (links) to your data and code, each with its own persistent identifier, right into the text of your paper, just like you would reference other literature. Many journals already allow such links, literature.** If a journal hosting your paper doesn't offer a place for your data, and or an identifier for it, use a repository (Rule 8) and get your own identifier (Rule 2). At a _minimum_, you can post,  and refer to, a package of files (data, codes, documentation on parameters, metadata, license information, and/or lists of links to such) with a persistent online identifier (Rule 2). And,  if yours your domain’s journals’ policies  do not, see Rule 10! not allow for good data-literature interlinking, try to effect change (see Rules 1 and 10).