What is data citation & why do we care?

What’s been happening here and overseas?

How ready are you for data citation?

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Welcome!

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WHAT’S NEW?

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Data Citation – why we care

Benefits for academia and the nation

• global access to research data

• legitimately citable contribution to the scientific record

• results can be verified and re-purposed for future study

• cross disciplinary studies never previously possible

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Benefits for research funders

• Australia invests over $30B p/a in R&D

• Australia has approximately 100K researchers

• Data capture costs up to half of a research project

• Enabling data reuse will reduce that cost

• Data citation is key to enabling data reuse

• Expanded publishing opportunities

Data Citation – why we care

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Benefits for individuals and institutions

• acknowledge and reward data outputs

• data citation metrics - reuse can be tracked  

• increases the citation rate of linked publications

• data publications acceptable for CVs and biosketches (NSF)

• journals require citations for supplemental material

Data Citation – why we care

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20th century data citation

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JohnG; Jen.

(2011?, 2012? N.D.):

3” res MFD.

CSIRO. Lots of Misc Files Red USB, bottom RH drawer, my office. 

Early 21stC data citation

John Gallant; Jenet Austin

(2012):

Contributing Area - Multiple Flow Direction (Partial) (3" resolution) derived from 1" SRTM DEM-H.

v1.

CSIRO. Data Collection.

http://dx.doi.org/ 10.4225/08/50A9D0E561DA6

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(Some) recent developments:• Funders & Government(s)• Publishers• Researchers• Standards • Citation tracking• ANDS and Australian institutions

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Where are we up to?

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the NSF now allows for citable data (ie with a DOI) to be listed as an outcome of research, like a journal article. This is done in what is called a "biosketch" - basically a summary of your work, an a key part of the granting process. <http://datapub.cdlib.org/?p=1343>

Funders come on board

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Early indications…

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And elsewhere…

“The Code”

What will the next revision say about data?

Publishers come on board

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The American NaturalistBiological Journal of the Linnean SocietyBMC EcologyBMC Evolutionary BiologyBMJBMJ OpenEcological ApplicationsEcological MonographsEcologyEcosphereEvolutionEvolutionary ApplicationsFrontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentFunctional EcologyGeneticsHeredity

Journal of Applied EcologyJournal of EcologyJournal of Evolutionary BiologyJournal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementJournal of HeredityJournal of PaleontologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionMolecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology ResourcesNatureNucleic Acids ResearchPaleobiologyPLOSScienceSystematic BiologyZooKeys

http://datadryad.org/pages/jdap

Selected journals that require data archiving

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Integrated access to publications <> data

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Data Journals

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http://www.nature.com/scientificdata/

Scientific Data now calling for submissions for launch in May 2014.

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Standards and conventions

DOIs : an ISO Standard

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DataCite – unique identifiers for datasetshttp:dx.doi.org/10.5284/1000164

ORCID – unique identifiers for peoplehttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700

ODIN – builds on these initiatives to address “identifier awareness”

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ORCID, DataCite & ODIN

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Researchers come on board …

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Citation tracking

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

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Altmetrics

Source: impactstory.org

ANDS & Data Citation

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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

A number of institutions in Australia are building a culture of data citation within their organisations:

Some are “dipping their toes”

Some have it in their data management roadmap

For some, it’s a “blip” on their radar

Where are you? Next steps?

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Are we there yet?

Do we have a 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??