Data Citation: the next big thing… ?!?!<Richard Ferrers ><Research Data Analyst>

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Victoria University20 Nov. 2014

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Surfing the Information Tsunami – tools to cope

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ANDS Purpose:

To make Australia’s research data assets more valuable for its researchers, research institutions and the nation.

ANDS enables transformation of:Data that are:

UnmanagedDisconnectedInvisibleSingle use

To Structured Collections that are:ManagedConnected FindableReusable

so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-use research data.

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More …Data Citation… in detail…

1. Data Journals; Data Citation Index2. VU Institutional (Data) and other Repositories3. Training for librarians | for researchers4. Discovery, citation, metrics; measuring research5. How to enhance discovery

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1. DATA JOURNALS

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Data Journals

About Scientific Data http://www.nature.com/sdata/about

“Scientific Data is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets.”

Scientific Data primarily publishes: “Data Descriptors, a new type of scientific

publication designed to promote an in-depth understanding of research datasets”.

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Dryad (datadryad.org)

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2.VU INSTITUTIONAL (DATA) REPOSITORIES

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3.TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANS / RESEARCHERS

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Where can I find training? ANDS resources

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ANDS Webinars and presentations

ANDS YouTube Channel

http://ands.org.au/presentations/index.html

32 mentions of Data Citation on Presentation page, 2 youtube clips

Videos on Sharing Data… Persistent IDs and Data Citation: Rsch Data

Netherlands (5mins) Sharing Data: Good for science, good for you:

DANS Netherlands (4 mins) [Data the new oil] Managing Research Data: Digital Curation Centre,

Edinburgh UK (first five of 12 mins) Whose data is it anyway? Yale School of Medicine

(2 mins) [YODA; Yale Open Data Access]14

Further Training For Librarians / Rschers DCC: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/developing-

rdm-services/rdm-training-librarians Australian: see ANDS Project Registry

https://projects.ands.org.au/policy.php International

ANDS International Catalogue of research data management training:

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4.DISCOVERY, CITATION, METRICS

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Woodrow, Ross Laughren, Patrick ( 2011 ): Queensland Films 1930-1960: from Talkies to Television. Griffith Film School, Griffith University. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/01/4F8E1426244BD

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DOIs for data: how to cite

Woodrow, Ross Laughren, Patrick ( 2011 ): Queensland Films 1930-1960: from Talkies to Television. Griffith Film School, Griffith University. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/01/4F8E1426244BD

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Digital Object Identifiers – the basics

Globally unique identifier;

Easy and persistent access to research data (and other resource types);

DOIs are “minted” and are “resolvable”;

Minting implies a long term commitment to maintain the resource;

DOIs support automated tracking of reuse aka data citation metrics.

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DOIs and ANDS

DOI Styles• doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.745927• 10.4225/13/50BBFCFE08A12• http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/13/50BBFCFE08A12• http://doi.org/10.4225/13/50BBFCFE08A12

ANDS Cite My Data Service -> DataCite registration agency

Minimum set of metadata required to mint a DOIIdentifier, Creator, Title, Publisher, Publication Year

ANDS DOIs are for research data, software, workflows

• Funders & Government(s)• Publishers• Researchers• Citation tracking products and services• ANDS

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Who cares about data citation?

image: http://riverbankoftruth.com

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Researchers care

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The citation benefit intensified over time... ...with publications from 2004 and 2005 cited 30

per cent more often if their data was freely available.

Every 100 papers with open data prompted 150 "data reuse papers" within five years

Original authors tended to use their data for only two years, but others re-used it for up to six years.

Piwowar HA, Vision TJ. (2013) Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ 1:e175 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175

Why ? for related publications

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http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/dci/

Released Nov 2012

Thomson Reuters recommends citing this resource as: Global Soil Data Task (2000): GLOBAL GRIDDED SURFACES OF SELECTED SOIL CHARACTERISTICS (IGBP-DIS). Version 9.0. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/569 27

28http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/tools

Scopus – not yetTracking – Scopus (not yet)

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To summarise …

» Data citation is becoming accepted scholarly practice

» Traditional journals are embracing data citation; Many new journals assume data citation

» Research funding will have more emphasis on data access + reuse = citation

» Scholarly metrics will eventually include citations to data

» altmetrics will become more important: reach and impact & early identification of seminal datasets » DOIs – best practice for persistent access to data products

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What to do next?

the rewards…Ensure data is discoverable, reusable, citable and trackable

“readiness checklist”

• Describe data (more=>better)

• Add licence to data (eg CC-BY)

• Identify data (eg a DOI)

• Publish data (with descriptions)

• Cite data (inc. authors)

• Reuse data (cite and publish)

• Count data (eg altmetrics)

DOI FAQ/checklist at: http://ands.org.au/cite-data/doi-q-and-a.html

5. HOW TO ENHANCE DATA DISCOVERY

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Do we have a data description (metadata) catalogue?

Do we have a store of publicly available data?

Do our researchers regularly archive data?

Are our researchers interested in data citation?

Do our policy makers support data citation?

Are our datasets stable?

Do we have access to a developer to implement the tools?

Source: Dave Connell, Australian Antarctic Data Centre

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Is my organisation ready for data citation??

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What needs to happen for research data citation to become common in VU by 2015?- For Researchers – For Others

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http://www.vu.edu.au/research

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Richard is the VU-ANDS Outreach personrichard.ferrers@ands.org.auANDS works with 40 Institutions rather than 100,000 researchers, so our main VU contacts are: Lyle in the Research Office, Adrian and Julie in the Library.

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