Open Access Data and Connecting Data to Your Publications
Nick Wolf and Vicky Steeves | February 16, 2018
Access to Research Results:
A Move to Include Data?
- NSF "Public Access to Results" initiative: all publications funded by NSF to be publicly accessible within one year. Currently, publications only but moving in direction of including data.
- NIH already has PubMed Central...in talks over "data commons."
- Humanities CORE, NEH-funded repository for humanities data
Getting Credit for Your Data
Advantages to Tracking Citations:
- Demonstrate to funders/promotion committees you & your data make big impacts in your field!
- they judge merit based on intellectual merit and wider impact
- tangible evidence to weigh against the cost of research
- Monitor usage of datasets!
- You can know what forms of data prep and data publication are most effective for sharing/open science!
- Uncover opportunities for collaboration amongst peers
Time to Share Data...How?
A Reminder of Some Open Access Principles
Green (freely accessible, self-archived) vs. Gold (researcher-paid freely available)- Most data archives/publishers are green, though a few provide deeper preservation through partnered financial support from depositor (quasi-gold)
- A close link between publication and data archiving (i.e. archiving by journals) means that data archiving may be green/gold depending on how the journal itself operates
- Self-Archived by depositor and minimally described
- Self-Archived by depositor and well-described
- Archived by repository and fully described with file migration, preservation, etc.
- Persistently linked (At least URI/URL...preferabally DOI)
- Searchable and browsable
- Retrieved or downloaded easily
- Citable
A Reminder of Some Open Access Principles
Levels of archiving:Some Minimum Requirements
Data must be:Self-Archived/Minimally Described
Open Science FrameworkSelf-Archived Well-Described
DryadFigshare
Fully Archived
ICPSRUK Data Archive
...Or, Select Repository by Discipline
NYU Data Management: Selecting a RepositoryNeed to know funder open access guidelines?
Try Sherpa JulietQuestions?
Email us: vicky.steeves@nyu.edu & nicholas.wolf@nyu.edu
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