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New data journal.
HUGE growth in "supplemental materials" added to articles. Graph suitable for use in slidedeck.
Carrying out the Survey There are 4 main working spreadsheets for the survey of Top/Bottom Science/Social Science Journals – approximating to 400 journals. Each journal has now been reviewed…
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What Makes a Dataset Citable? Before assigning a DOI to a dataset, certain criteria must be met, namely that the cited dataset has to be: Stable: not subject to modificaton. Complete: not subject to updates. Permanent: by assigning a DOI, data centres are committing themselves to making the dataset available for the foreseeable future. Of good (technical) quality: by assigning a DOI, data centres are giving it a ‘stamp of approval’, stating it is complete with all metadata made available.
It looks like the journal Nature is hiring a Chief Data Editor (link via Hilary M.). It looks like the primary purpose of this editor is to develop tools for collecting, curating, and distributing data with the goal of improving reproducible research.
As open data is gaining momentum an increasing number of organizations are thinking about ways to make their data available for others to use. Here are some thought on how to approach design issues when making open government data available. TL;DR See if it is possible to publish your open data as file dumps instead …
Project to design "research data catalogue."
I was invited to give a talk to the British Geological Survey on the 25th January, on the topic of data citation and publishing, and why it...
We are also contemplating a new article type: Data Pages. Data Pages would be brief publications about datasets, in which the data are not already well described in other papers yet are considered of great value to the community. Such brief publications would bring a traditional reward to the producers of these shared datasets.
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Keynote presentation American Chemical Society Editors Meeting, La Jolla CA USA, Jan 6, 2012
A comprehensive framework to encourage and facilitate the sharing of biodiversity data has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
With my Dryad hat on I was recently invited to participate in a “Future of Research Dissemination” day at BMJ. Invitees were asked to give brief introductory remarks on what journals a…
"Overall, only 47 papers (9%) deposited full primary raw data online. None of the 149 papers not subject to data availability policies made their full primary data publicly available."