Scientific Data’s call for submissions is fast approaching, and accepted manuscripts will be featured at our platform’s launch in Spring 2014. We hope you’ll want to take part!
If you’re interested in publishing your datasets—and getting credit for them—all the information you need to draft and submit a manuscript is now available on our website (See Box 1, “Getting ready to submit”).
Are you a society, or a working group, a data center or library, a consortium or a grass-root organization that works to collect, curate, share and publish datasets from the research sciences? Are you developing or maintaining open, community standards that enable annotation, sharing and reuse of datasets? Do you have databases or tools, with an established user-base, that help with the data curation, reporting and sharing process? Do you work to harmonize, convert or bridge across different community-standards? If you are interested in learning when, where and how you can work with Scientific Data and become part of our community, then here is what you need to know. Continue reading
The ongoing conversation around research data curation, preservation and publication has become increasingly exciting as various organisations have moved to encourage and in some cases support the sharing and reuse of data in context — an activity my own group at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre has worked hard to support through community building and the collaborative development of appropriate software. Funder and governmental data policies have encouraged the open access movement, data standards and advocacy communities to transform research communication; publishers have of course begun to take a more active role as a result. In a world that is undergoing great change there are only opportunities for those prepared to innovate and take on new challenges. As the Honorary Academic Editor of Scientific Data I appreciate the opportunity Nature Publishing Group has given me to contribute from within. Continue reading