Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors

Hoboken, NJ-- November 28, 2016—John Wiley & Sons Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.


More at: http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-129824.html

Universal and Unified Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements

After an extensive period of public commentary and after conducting test certifications, the ICSU World Data System (WDS) and the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) Board are pleased to announce the availability of the first version of their universal and unified Core Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements.

The catalogue of requirements was developed through a DSA–WDS partnership Working Group within the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The group built on inherent complementarity between the criteria previously established by the two organizations to harmonize unified and universal requirements reflecting the core characteristics of trustworthy data repositories.

The DSA Board and the WDS Scientific Committee are working together to further align their

certification procedures and ensure that the research community will have a single, clear reference point for seeking Core Trustworthy Data Repository certification.

• An Introduction to the Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements (https://goo.gl/07V61m)
• Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements (https://goo.gl/fxVbgc and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.168411)

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/101389/

Developments in research data management in academic libraries: Towards an understanding of research data service maturity

Cox, A.M. , Kennan, M.A., Lyon, L. et al. (1 more author) (2017) Developments in research data management in academic libraries: Towards an understanding of research data service maturity. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. ISSN 2330-1635 (In Press)

Abstract

This paper reports an international study of research data management (RDM) activities, services and capabilities in higher education libraries. It presents the results of a survey covering higher education libraries in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the UK. The results indicate that libraries have provided leadership in RDM, particularly in advocacy and policy development. Service development is still limited, focused especially on advisory and consultancy services (such as data management planning support and data-related training), rather than technical services (such as provision of a data catalogue, and curation of active data). Data curation skills development is underway in libraries, but skills and capabilities are not consistently in place and remain a concern. Other major challenges include resourcing, working with other support services, and achieving ‘buy in’ from researchers and senior managers. Results are compared with previous studies in order to assess trends and relative maturity levels. The range of RDM activities explored in this study are positioned on a ‘landscape maturity model’, which reflects current and planned research data services and practice in academic libraries, representing a ‘snapshot’ of current developments and a baseline for future research.

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/101389/

University of Cambridge Open Research Pilot Project

The Open Research Pilot Project is a two year long project which will look at gaining an understanding of what is needed for researchers to share and get credit for all outputs of the research process. These include non-positive results, protocols, source code, presentations and other research outputs beyond the remit of traditional publications. The Project aims to understand the barriers preventing researchers from sharing (including resource and time implications), as well as what incentivises the process. It will utilise the new Wellcome Open Research publishing platform, together with other channels, to share these outputs.

http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/datanews/call-participants-open-research-pilot-project

Jnl article: Provenance in support of ANDS' four transformations

Provenance in support of ANDS' four transformations
Andrew E. Treloar, Mingfang Wu
International Journal of Digital Curation: 2016, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 183-194
doi:10.2218/ijdc.v11i1.416

This article introduces the provenance activities that are being carried out at the Australia National Data Services (ANDS). Since its beginning, ANDS has been promoting four data transformations so that Australia’s research data become more valuable and reusable by researchers. Among many other activities that enable the four transformations, ANDS has been encouraging ANDS partners to capture and describe rich context at the time when a data collection is created. In 2015, ANDS funded a number of external projects that had provenance components. In addition, ANDS is working on the interoperability between the schema that is used by the ANDS research data registration and discovery service – Research Data Australia (RDA) – and the W3C recommended provenance standard, Provenance Ontology (PROV-O), and investigating how to enrich the schema to access provenance information. The article concludes by discussing the lessons we learnt and our future planned activity.

Andrew presented the paper at the 11th International Digital Curation Conference (22-25 Feb. 2016, Amsterdam). Andrew's presentation is available here.

Jnl article: The location of the citation: changing practices in how publications cite original data in the Dryad Digital Repository

The location of the citation: changing practices in how publications cite original data in the Dryad Digital Repository
Mayo, Christine; Vision, Todd J.; Hull, Elizabeth A.
International Journal of Digital Curation: Vol. 11 Issue 1 – 2016:

10.2218/ijdc.v11i1.400


While stakeholders in scholarly communication generally agree on the importance of data citation, there is not consensus on where those citations should be placed within the publication – particularly when the publication is citing original data. Recently, CrossRef and the Digital Curation Center (DCC) have recommended as a best practice that original data citations appear in the works cited sections of the article. In some fields, such as the life sciences, this contrasts with the common practice of only listing data identifier(s) within the article body (intratextually).


We inquired whether data citation practice has been changing in light of the guidance from CrossRef and the DCC. We examined data citation practices from 2011 to 2014 in a corpus of 1,125 articles associated with original data in the Dryad Digital Repository. The percentage of articles that include no reference to the original data has declined each year, from 31% in 2011 to 15% in 2014. The percentage of articles that include data identifiers intratextually has grown from 69% to 83%, while the percentage that cite data in the works cited section has grown from 5% to 8%. If the proportions continue to grow at the current rate of 19-20% annually, the proportion of articles with data citations in the works cited section will not exceed 90% until 2030.