Journal Data RequirementsUWS Library Webinar Oct 2014

Presented by Susan Robbins – Research Services Coordinator (Library)

Katrina Chaudhary – Science & Health Librarian

Gerry Devine – Data Manager HIE

Data Policyo PLOS journals require authors to make all data underlying the

findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception.

o Authors are required to include a data availability statement in all research articles published by PLOS journals

o Refusal to share data and related metadata and methods in accordance with this policy will be grounds for rejection.

Adapted from: http://www.plos.org/data-access-for-the-open-access-literature-ploss-data-policy/

PLOS Acceptable data-sharing methods

• All data and meta data underlying reported findings should be deposited in an appropriate public repository

• Repositories may be either subject-specific and accept specific types of structured data, or generalist repositories that accept multiple data types, such as Dryad or Figshare

Adapted from: http://www.plos.org/data-access-for-the-open-access-literature-ploss-data-policy/

Public Data Repositories

DRYAD image from: http://datadryad.org/figshare image from: http://figshare.com/

PLOS One article data via figshare

Data Journals

Image adapted from: http://www.nature.com/sdata/

Data Journal

Giga Science publishes 'big-data' studies from the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences

Images & text adapted from; http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/about

Data discovery and attribution

Image from: http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/dci/

Obtaining a Data DOI @UWS

‘Cite My Data’ service

Figshare (smaller datasets)

Contact eresearch@uws.edu.au to obtain a DOI for your dataset

http://researchdata.ands.org.au/growth-leaf-area-forest-experiment/11177

Publishing Data Experiences at HIE

Gerard Devine, UWS

The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment:

• Investigates the impacts of Environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems and ecosystem function.

• Specializing in Plant Biology, Forestry Science, Ecology and Soil Science

Data sources:

• Large scale sensor networks continuously generating data

• Researcher-produced analysis data

HIEv:

Application that helps HIE manage its research data end-to-end from initial collection at field-based automatic data collection points through to dataset packaging, cataloging in UWS' research data catalogue/RedBox and advertising on the Research Data Australia website.

Handle IDs:

• For publishing routine data (that may be of use publicly)

Data file 2Data file 2

Data file 3Data file 3

Data file 2Data file 2Data file 1Data file 1

Data file 3Data file 3

Data file 1Data file 1

RedBoxRedBoxMetadataRecord

MetadataRecord

Research Data Store

Research Data Store

Research Data Australia

Research Data Australia

Back to redbox catalogue entry via handle URL

• The need to publish a dataset associated with a journal publication. This needed a DOI as opposed to a handle

• Our HIEv -> Library system does not currently mint DOIs.

• Necessary to use a domain specific data repository or more communal data/digital repository, e.g. Figshare, Dryad etc

DOIs:

• HIEv used to package data files together into a coherent dataset for publication

• Files uploaded to Scientist’s FigShare account.

• Some additional metadata given on the Figshare upload page

• Datasets can be temporarily held in a ‘private’ state (for journal submission stage etc)

• Once published Dataset is minted with a DOI and made fully public (under the CC-BY license)

• The figshare page itself acts as the landing page/destination of the DOI

FigShare:

Further Information