Varsha Khodiyar, PhD

Data Curation Editor, Scientific Data

Nature Publishing Group

@varsha_khodiyar

@scientificdata

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Data Publishing and Institutional RepositoriesFORCE16 : Libraries United in Opening New Scholarly Platforms

18th April 2016

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www.nature.com/scientificdata

Why data papers? – Credit for data producers

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Why data papers? - Data reuse is easier

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“The Data Descriptor made it easier to use the data, for me it was critical that everything was there…all the technical details like voxel size.”

Professor Daniele Marinazzo

Results

Discussion

Analysis & Conclusions

What was done to generate the data?

How was the data processed?

Where is the data?

Who did what and when?

Methods and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements.

Do not contain tests of new scientific hypotheses

Comparison of data paper to traditional article

Data papers at Scientific Data

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Human readable representation of

studyi.e. article (HTML &

PDF)

Human readable component

i.e. article text (HTML & PDF)

Machine accessible

componenti.e. metadata (ISA format)

Scientific Data’s Repository List

Almost 80 recommended data repositories listed

1. Is there a public data-specific repository for your data?

2. If there is no public data-specific repository for your data exists, does your funder or institution mandate deposition to a particular repository?

www.nature.com/sdata/data-policies/repositories

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Authors can use their own IR when submitting to Scientific Data

For institutional repositories (such as ScholarsArchive@OSU), select ‘DataCite DOI’ as Repository Name during submission

DataCite

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IR

Scientific Data’s IR workflow

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Final Data Citation

What do data journals require from a repository?

1. Recognized within their scientific community

2. Long-term data preservation plan

3. Implementation of community reporting standards

4. Stable identifiers for published datasets

5. Allow open access to data without unnecessary

restrictions e.g. no commercial use restrictions

Questionnaire for new repositories requesting listing:http://www.nature.com/sdata/data-policies#repo-suggest

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Email scientificdata@nature.com

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Honorary Academic EditorSusanna-Assunta Sansone

Managing EditorAndrew L. Hufton

Data Curation EditorVarsha K. Khodiyar

Advisory Panel and Editorial Board including senior researchers, funders, librarians and curators

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