New data journal lets researchers share their data open access | Elsevier Connect

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-10

Summary:

"Not long into my PhD research, my supervisor asked me why I wasn't writing up an article based on the hours upon hours of fluorescence microscopy movies I'd accumulated over the past year. I told him it was because I couldn't generate an earth-shaking story from the data no matter how I changed the angle of my analyses. His response: 'This is good, solid data that you should publish.' His point really hit home with me: each piece of data that has been carefully and thoughtfully gathered has value. Often, you don't know what future value that data will have until you've shared it with colleagues in the scientific community. Unfortunately, when I look back on my own scientific research and publications, most of the data I crammed into my articles and supplementary materials lacked the context needed for other researchers to actually benefit from the data. I doubt I would have been able to reanalyze or reproduce any of that data based on what I'd written in the article or presented in the supplementary material. Without a thorough description, any initial value to the data is lost. The new Data in Brief journal has been created in an effort to extend the use of data so painstakingly gathered ... Data in Brief is a place for researchers to thoroughly describe, highlight and share their data. Data that may have never left the lab bench, data that normally goes unnoticed in supplementary files, and data in public repositories now have a venue for publication ... All data associated with Data in Brief articles must be made publicly available by publishing the data directly in the journal or in an established public repository. Data in Brief has teamed up with The DataVerse Network to create a general database that hosts all types of data ..."

Link:

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/new-data-journal-lets-researchers-share-their-data-open-access

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.gold oa.data_journal oa.data oa.repositories.data oa.green oa.dataverse_network oa.elsevier oa.journals oa.repositories oa.announcements

Date tagged:

09/10/2014, 10:59

Date published:

09/10/2014, 06:59