This blog was written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing.
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
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
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
Scientific Data and Nature Publishing Group’s open data initiatives have been presented to Japanese audiences through several recent events.
On 22 November, a luncheon seminar was arranged during the 59th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics, co-sponsored by Japanese Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) and Nature Publishing Group. The seminar, ‘Scholarly Communication in Open Research era – open data and data deposition with example of Scientific Data and Human Genome Variation’, discussed trends in the open data movement that prompted the launch of two open access journals (Human Genome Variation is co-published by JSHG and Nature Publishing Group). Continue reading
The Scientific Data team are excited to be chairing a half-day conference, aimed at scientific researchers, at Nature Publishing Group’s UK headquarters this autumn. Free tickets for the event, ‘Publishing better science through better data’, have just been released. Continue reading