‘Availability of supporting data’: crediting transparency and enhancing the literature

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The first enhancement is a new standard article section, ‘Availability of supporting data’, for relevant journals. This section will make it easier for authors to indicate where and how the data supporting the results of a research project can be found openly online....In recent years journals have been taking different approaches to encouraging data sharing. Data sharing can be implied, on request, as a condition of submission or publication (the traditional approach for BioMed Central journals); it can be required for editors and peer reviewers (such as happens at Nature); a statement as to the availability of data can be required (in Annals of Internal Medicine and the BMJ). Increasing transparency about the availability of data is a step in the right direction. But to increase much-needed academic credit for data sharing and publication and to enhance the functionality of the online literature by linking publications to data, we should move towards consistent citation and linking of publications to data. Understandably, it is not always possible or appropriate to openly share data in some biomedical fields, so the 'Availability of supporting data' section is not required by all journals. The decision to mandate data deposition as a condition of publication is a decision best made by the scientific community a journal serves. The 'Availability of supporting data' section is a tool for editors, authors and scientific communities to, at the appropriate time, put data deposition policies into practice...."

Link:

http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/availability_of_supporting_data_crediting

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Tags:

oa.journals oa.new oa.data oa.policies ru.ps oa.integration oa.bmc

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:08

Date published:

07/09/2011, 16:26