From: Kim Beadle <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:35:03 +0200
Joint Statement from DataCite and the International Association of STM
Publishers on the Linkability and Citability of Research Data
DataCite and the International Association of STM Publishers are
pleased to announce best practice recommendations the two
organizations are endorsing to make research data easier to find, link
to, re-use and cite.
Introduction
Recent years have shown an exponential growth in the volume of
available research data. Most stakeholders across the spectrum of
researchers, funders, librarians and publishers agree about the
benefits of having researcher validated research data available and
findable for reuse by others. Still, the current estimates about
research data are that approximately 70 pct are never shared and
remain on personal computers or hard disks of the researchers or at
best their department at the institute.
Researchers wish to have safe and trustworthy repositories for the
preservation of their underlying research data. For findability,
citability and re-use, it is of ultimate importance that researcher
validated data are well linked with publications to ensure their
inclusion in the record of science. It is in this context that
DataCite, a consortium of 16 library and archival institutes, and the
International Association of STM Publishers, whose membership of over
100 publishers internationally publish around 70 % of all research
publications worldwide, are issuing the following joint statement. The
aim of this joint statement is to achieve commonly shared principles
for best practices between publishers, researchers and data
repositories about the linking between data and publications and
citation practices for data sets.
Joint Statement on Linkability and Citability of Research Data:
1. To improve the availability and findability of research data,
DataCite and STM encourage authors of research papers to deposit
researcher validated data in trustworthy and reliable Data Archives.
2. DataCite and STM encourage Data Archives to enable bi-directional
linking between datasets and publications by using established and
community endorsed unique persistent identifiers such as database
accession codes and DOI's.
3. DataCite and STM encourage publishers to make visible or increase
visibility of these links from publications to datasets.
4. DataCite and STM encourage Data Archives to make visible or
increase visibility of these links from datasets to publications.
5. DataCite and STM support the principle of data reuse and for this
purpose actively
participate in initiatives for best practice recommendations for the
citation of datasets.
6. DataCite and STM invite other organizations involved in research
data management to join and support this statement.
Signed on the 14th June 2012, Copenhagen by
Adam Farquhar, President DataCite and Michael Mabe, CEO STM
DataCite (www.datacite.org) is an international organisation which
aims to establish easier access to research data, increase acceptance
of research data as legitimate contributions in the scholarly record,
and to support data archiving to permit results to be verified and
re-purposed for future study. DataCite has a Managing Agent (currently
the German National Library of Science and Technology, TIB) along with
15 regional members from 11 countries. The organisation was founded
in London on 1 Dec 2009, the members are: The German National Library
of Science and Technology (TIB), the German National Library of
Medicine (ZB MED), the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) and
the German GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
Additional European members are: The Library of the ETH Zürich in
Switzerland, the Library of TU Delft, from the Netherlands, the
L'Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) from
France, The technical Information Center of Denmark, The British
Library, the Sedish National Data Service (SND), the Conferenza dei
Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI) from Italy. North America is
represented through: the California Digital Library, the Office of
Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), the Purdue Univerversity
and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
(CISTI). Furthermore the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is a
member.
STM (www.stm-assoc.org) is the leading global trade association for
academic and professional publishers. It has over 110 members in 21
countries who each year collectively publish nearly 70 % of all
journal articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference
works. STM members include learned societies, university presses,
private companies, new starts and established players.
STM participates in the development of information identification
protocols and electronic copyright management systems. STM members are
kept fully up to date (via newsletters, the STM website, and e-mail)
about the issues which will ultimately affect their business. STM
organises seminars, training courses, and conferences. Its General
Assembly is held annually, one day preceding the Frankfurt Book Fair.
More information:
Jan Brase, DataCite, [log in to unmask]
Eefke Smit, STM, [log in to unmask]
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