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
We have a galaxy of open research stars giving talks at this year’s edition of Publishing Better Science through Better Data (#scidata16). And if you have a great example of research data sharing or reuse, you could be joining them.
Tickets for the last two events, in 2014 and 2015, went within 24 hours of their announcement and gained wide attention online. This year Springer Nature have partnered with the Wellcome Trust to provide a bigger and better event exploring issues in research data, focused on the needs of early career researchers. The day will include advice on publishing and advancing careers, as well as good practice for data management and presentation. It will also feature tools and resources available to researchers to help them, and society, derive maximum benefit from research data. Prior knowledge of open science, open data and open access are not needed to attend – the event is for anyone interested in carrying out and publishing better research. Continue reading