Archiving and publication of research data - a gap in scholarly communication Chairs: Eefke Smit (STM) Jonathan Tedds (University of Leicester) Michael Diepenbroek (PANGAEA/ICSU-WDS) - presenter

Data is important but hard to find

Data is important, but hard to find

Publishing Research Consortium, 2010 Researchers, N = 3824

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• Citable & persistent (DOI) • CC-BY License • Quality data QA/QC -> review procedures

• Efficient usage (Meta)data & interoperability standards

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• FITNESS OF USE!

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Usage of data needs more …

OECD principles and guidelines for access to research data (2007)

The Long Tail of Data Fi

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Total volume of scientific data

Professionally managed & published data Large scale monitoring & computed data & disciplinary data centers

Unmanaged & non-public data Data from individual scientists, labs, or smaller projects

Unmanaged open access data

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Total volume of scientific data

• Publishing workflows • Publishing services • Bibliometrics (Incentives) • Cost compensation

Collaboration between data archives & science journals

linking editorial workflows linking services

WDS/RDA Data Publishing Group

• Research facilities • Data repositories • Universities • Libraries • Publishing Industry