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Examples of "mixed" journals publishing data papers are: [http://www.springerplus.com/ SpringerPlus], [[PLOS ONE]], [http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/ Biodiversity Data Journal], and [http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/ GigaScience]. |
Examples of "mixed" journals publishing data papers are: [http://www.springerplus.com/ SpringerPlus], [[PLOS ONE]], [http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/ Biodiversity Data Journal], and [http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/ GigaScience]. |
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A non-exhaustive list of data journals has been compiled by staff at the University of Edinburgh.<ref>https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare/Sources+of+dataset+peer+review</ref> |
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A comprehensive survey on data journals is going to be published soon.<ref name="CandelaEtAl2014">{{Cite journal | author=Candela, L., Castelli, D., Manghi, P. and Tani, A.|title=Data Journals: A Survey|journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science Science and Technology|year=2014|volume=to appear|pages=n.a.}}</ref> |
A comprehensive survey on data journals is going to be published soon.<ref name="CandelaEtAl2014">{{Cite journal | author=Candela, L., Castelli, D., Manghi, P. and Tani, A.|title=Data Journals: A Survey|journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science Science and Technology|year=2014|volume=to appear|pages=n.a.}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:32, 12 September 2014
Data papers are “scholarly publication of a searchable metadata document describing a particular on-line accessible dataset, or a group of datasets, published in accordance to the standard academic practices”.[1] Their final aim being to provide “information on the what, where, why, how and who of the data”.[2] The intent of a data paper is to offer descriptive information on the related dataset(s) focusing on data collection, distinguishing features, access and potential reuse rather than on data processing and analysis.[3]
Thus data papers represent the scholarly communication approach to data sharing.
Despite their potentiality, data papers are not the ultimate and complete solution for all the data sharing and reuse issues and, in some cases, they are considered to induce false expectations in the research community.[4]
Data journals
Data papers are supported by a rich array of journals, some of which are "pure", i.e. they are dedicated to publish data papers only, while others – the majority – are "mixed", i.e. they publish a number of articles types including data papers.
Examples of "pure" data journals are: Earth System Science Data, Scientific Data, Journal of Open Archaeology Data, and Open Health Data.
Examples of "mixed" journals publishing data papers are: SpringerPlus, PLOS ONE, Biodiversity Data Journal, and GigaScience.
A non-exhaustive list of data journals has been compiled by staff at the University of Edinburgh.[5]
A comprehensive survey on data journals is going to be published soon.[6]
References
- ^ Chavan, V., & Penev, L. (2011). "The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science". BMC Bioinformatics. 12 (15). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S15-S2.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Callaghan, S., Donegan, S., Pepler, S., Thorley, M., Cunningham, N., Kirsch, P., Ault, L., Bell, P., Bowie, R., Leadbetter, A., Lowry, R., Moncoiffé, G., Harrison, K., Smith-Haddon, B., Weatherby, A., & Wright, D. (2012). "Making data a first class scientific output: Data citation and publication by NERCs environmental data centres". International Journal of Digital Curation. 7 (1): 107–113. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v7i1.218.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Newman Paul & Corke Peter. "Data papers — peer reviewed publication of high quality data sets". International Journal of Robotics Research. 28 (5): 587–587. doi:10.1177/0278364909104283.
- ^ Parsons, M.A. and Fox, P.A. (2013). "Is data publication the right metaphor?". Data Science Journal. 12: WDS31–WDS46.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare/Sources+of+dataset+peer+review
- ^ Candela, L., Castelli, D., Manghi, P. and Tani, A. (2014). "Data Journals: A Survey". Journal of the Association for Information Science Science and Technology. to appear: n.a.
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