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Research data policy going back to basics in Barcelona

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This blog was written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing.
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This week the Springer Nature research data team are exploring how our research data policy initiative can help facilitate wider adoption of clear, consistent policies for publishing research data.

We are attending the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 9th Plenary meeting in Barcelona where, amongst other things, we are chairing the inaugural Interest Group meeting on standardisation of policy for publishing research data.

At a hastily organised unofficial meeting at the RDA 8th Plenary it became clear there is a lot of interest in addressing the problems researchers face in understanding and complying with data policies. We are now – officially – working via the RDA to do this. Continue reading →

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The 10 principles of open research data

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With the publication of the Concordat on Open Research Data last week, the UK further cemented its leadership position in promoting access to tax payer-funded research data.

The Concordat sets out 10 principles that promote access to and reuse of research data as an enabler of high quality research, while recognising the costs that can be involved. Amongst other principles, the concordat promotes: Continue reading →

Progress on pragmatic sharing of clinical data

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This blog was written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing.

Guidelines on clinical data sharing developed by the Scientific Data team have been published in Research Integrity and Peer Review, and several published Data Descriptors at Scientific Data demonstrate the guidelines in practice. Our aim is to implement the best features of journals, data repositories and secure data request services to enable effective sharing of experimental clinical research data. Continue reading →

Getting practical about the transition to Open Data

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It’s Open Access Week and this Friday the Scientific Data team and colleagues at Nature Publishing Group are preparing for the second – now, annual – edition of our data-focused conference, Publishing Better Science through Better Data.

The conference explores the practical implications of data sharing for early career researchers as they conduct and publish their work. This includes advice on publishing, advancing careers, and discussion of emerging tools and resources available to researchers to help them, and society, derive maximum benefit from scientific research. Continue reading →