Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter - Request For Comments - F1000 Blogs

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Summary:

"Publishers and journals are developing data policies to ensure that datasets, as well as other digital products associated with articles, are deposited and made accessible via appropriate repositories, also in line with the FAIR Principles. With thousands of options available, however, the lists of deposition repositories recommended by publishers are often different and consequently the guidance provided to authors may vary from journal to journal. This is due to a lack of common criteria used to select the data repositories, but also to the fact that there is still no consensus of what constitutes a good data repository. 

To tackle this, FAIRsharing and DataCite have joined forces with a group of publisher representatives (authors of this work) who are actively implementing data policies and recommending data repositories to researchers. The result of our work is a set of proposed criteria that journals and publishers believe are important for the identification and selection of data repositories, which can be recommended to researchers when they are preparing to publish the data underlying their findings. ..."

Link:

https://blog.f1000.com/2019/11/29/data-repository-selection-criteria-that-matter-request-for-comments/

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oa.new oa.data oa.fair oa.recommendations oa.policies oa.policies.journals oa.policies.journals.data oa.implementation oa.consultations oa.repositories.data oa.repositories

Date tagged:

12/02/2019, 12:54

Date published:

12/02/2019, 07:54