SCIENTIFIC DATA: a new open-access, data publication from the Nature Publishing Group

Andrew L. HuftonManaging Editor, Scientific DataNature Publishing Groupandrew.hufton@nature.com

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The Data Deluge

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Or?

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The Data Journal concept

• Data must be well described before others can use it and benefit from it.

• Scientists who share data in a reusable manner deserve credit through citable publications.

• Several journals now offer “data paper” article-types, including GigaScience, F1000Research, Earth Systems Science Data, Biodiversity Data Journal

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Now Live!

Get Credit for Sharing Your Data

Publications will be indexed and citeable.

Open-access

Authors select from three Creative Commons licenses for the main Data Descriptor. Each publication supported by CCO metadata.

Focused on Data Reuse

All the information others need to reuse the data; no interpretative analysis, or hypothesis testing

Peer-reviewed

Rigorous peer-review focused on technical data quality and reuse value

Promoting Community Data Repositories

Not a new data repository; data stored in community data repositories

Focus on data reuse

Sections:• Title• Abstract• Background & Summary• Methods• Technical Validation• Data Records• Usage Notes • Figures & Tables • References• Data Citations

Data Descriptor

Detailed descriptions of the methods and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements.Does not contain tests of new scientific hypotheses

Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles by the Data Citation Synthesis Group, incl.:- CODATA- Research Data Alliance,- Force11+ curated machine-readable metadata (ISA-Tab)

SynthesisAnalysisConclusions

What did I do to generate the data?How was the data processed?Where is the data?Who did what when

Methods and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements.Do not contain tests of new scientific hypotheses

Data Descriptor relation with traditional articles

Overcoming barriers to data sharing

• Actively looking to publish cutting-edge datasets in fields where data sharing is rare.

• Helping authors find the best place to archive their data

• Working to find better options for sharing BIG data

Diverse ContentPublishing across the natural sciences

Biology• Associated Nature

Article• Data at figshare &

NCBI GEO• Integrated figshare

data viewer

Environmental• New Dataset• Data in figshare• Code in figshare• Integrated figshare

data viewer• Cited in Science

Chemistry• New Dataset• Computationally-

derived• Data at figshare• Integrated figshare

data-viewer

Expanding in the physical sciences

• Growing list of physical sciences Editorial Board members:

Janos Hajdu, Uppsala University, Sweden

Jim Halliday, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, & UKERC, UK

Stephan C. Schürer, University of Miami, USA

Matthew Todd, The University of Sydney, Australia

Recent editorial at Nature Physics, “It's good to share”

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Managing Editor, Scientific DataAndrew L. Huftonandrew.hufton@nature.com

Advisory Panel and Editorial Board including senior researchers, funders, librarians and curators

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