What Constitutes Peer Review of Data?

What Constitutes Peer Review of Data? A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines

Scholarly Kitchen blog post by Todd A. Carpenter

 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/11/what-constitutes-peer-review-research-data

Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Science

Brill and Data Archiving and Networking Services (DANS) have launched a new peer-reviewed, open access data journal: Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

More info: http://www.brill.com/news/brill-and-dans-launch-new-open-access-journal-research-data

New data journal - Journal of Open Humanities Data

 New data journal - Journal of Open Humanities Data

"Humanities subjects of interest to JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Data that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplines are highly encouraged."

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New article: Data journals: a survey

Data journals: A survey
Candela, Leonardo; Castelli, Donatella; Manghi, Paolo; Tani, Alice
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol. 66 Issue 9 – 2015: 1747 - 1762

10.1002/asi.23358

Data occupy a key role in our information society. However, although the amount of published data continues to grow and terms such as data deluge and big data today characterize numerous (research) initiatives, much work is still needed in the direction of publishing data in order to make them effectively discoverable, available, and reusable by others. Several barriers hinder data publishing, from lack of attribution and rewards, vague citation practices, and quality issues to a rather general lack of a data-sharing culture. Lately, data journals have overcome some of these barriers. In this study of more than 100 currently existing data journals, we describe the approaches they promote for data set description, availability, citation, quality, and open access. We close by identifying ways to expand and strengthen the data journals approach as a means to promote data set access and exploitation.

Scientific Data approves UK Data Service as recommended data depository

The UK Data Service is delighted to be the first UK-based social science repository to be listed as a recommended repository by Scientific Data.

Scientific Data, the open-access data journal of Nature Publishing Group, publishes the Data Descriptor article type and recommends that datasets accompanying manuscripts be deposited in established and trusted repositories, such as the UK Data Service ReShare. This ensures that these datasets are stably preserved for the longer-term, thoroughly peer-reviewed, and will be easily accessible to the research community after publication.

Using the UK Data Service’s ReShare repository, researchers can easily upload data collections in the social sciences, humanities and medical research, describe these collections and select the access conditions and licences that are best suited to their data. Researchers can then decide whether to publish these data either as fully open data or as safeguarded data that are made available under the UK Data Service’s End User Licence. Safeguarded data may be selected when anonymised data have been collected from human participants (via surveys or interviews), but where there is a risk of participant de-identification resulting from potential linkage to other data. The ReShare repository has inbuilt safeguards, such as requiring registration in order to access safeguarded datasets. This allows social science data to be shared and made available for research as openly as possible. The UK Data Service also reviews these data before their release, so researchers can be confident that they meet with the necessary ethical and legal requirements.

The UK Data Service fully supports the concept of scientific transparency and is increasingly working with journals to help support their policies. The collaboration with Scientific Data gives social science and humanities researchers the opportunity to increase the discoverability of their data via submission of a Data Descriptor, whilst maintaining UK Data Service’s safeguarding of sensitive data.

See: http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/newsitem/?id=4046 

OPEN DATA: Data Notes: Dissecting the most boring buzzword ever

This is a great post by Amye Kenall on BioMed Central and worth reading...

"By far one of the biggest concerns around Open Data is not whether we have the technology to enable researchers to make their data open but whether the cultural incentives are in place to make researchers freely share their data. Several publishers have recently started publishing ‘data journals’ or ‘data notes’. Is this latest publishing buzzword the answer to incentivising Open Data? ...

Check it out: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/author/amyekenall/

Thanks Anna Shadbolt (Uni Melb) for sharing this on ands-partners