Fig. 1From: Publishing descriptions of non-public clinical datasets: proposed guidance for researchers, repositories, editors and funding organisationsOverview of standard Scientific Data editorial workflow for non-confidential datasets. With submission of a Data Descriptor, authors provide a secure link to dataset(s) stored in an external repository. Editors and referees are granted access to the data, in a manner that does reveal their identities to the authors. Upon publication, both the article and the datasets are made freely accessible online under appropriate terms or licencesBack to article page