Figshare partners with Springer Nature

Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data. Figshare is now hosting additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. This new service to authors and readers will improve the online display of articles; improve readership of and engagement with published articles; increase the discoverability of additional files (and articles); provide richer, more specific metrics about the readership and reuse of additional files; assign each additional file a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI); and provide each journal with its own portal within Springer Nature's Figshare repository, giving each journal its own data repository (example from Genome Biology here). Springer Nature has embarked on this partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication. Articles published in SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journals now show a widget for previewing and browsing additional files, enabling readers to see enhanced content in line with the article in the same browser window. More at: https://www.digital-science.com/press-releases/figshare-partners-with-springer-nature-to-enhance-research-data-discoverability/

A beta version of SocArXiv, the open access, open source archive of social science, has been officially launched.

Created in partnership with the Center for Open Science, SocArXiv provides a free, non-commercial service for rapid sharing of academic papers. It is built on the Open Science Framework, a platform for researchers to upload data and code as well as research results.


More info: http://www.nfais.org/socarxiv-is-officially-launched-in-beta-version

More than 600 Springer Nature journals commit to new data sharing policies

More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies. The text of the policies has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license so that they can be re-used by the wider research community.


More at: http://www.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/over-600-springer-nature-journals-commit-to-new-data-sharing-policies/11111248

Elsevier implements FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles to encourage and reward authors for sharing research data

STM publisher Elsevier has implemented the FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles for over 1800 journals. This means that authors publishing with Elsevier are now able to cite the research data underlying their article, contributing to attribution and encouraging research data sharing with research articles.


“Research Data is of the utmost importance for researchers in their advancement of knowledge,” said Philippe Terheggen, Managing Director, Elsevier Journals. “Therefore, Elsevier fully supports the proper citation of such data. The implementation of data citation in our journals is an important step towards encouraging and rewarding authors for sharing research data. This is part of our wider efforts around research data which include the data repository Mendeley Data and data journals such as Data in Brief.”


As with article references, the dataset will be cited at the relevant place within the text of the article and will appear in the reference list. The data citations will look the same as other citations but will also contain new elements, such as the repository where the dataset is stored. In most cases, there will be a direct link to the stored dataset, making it even easier for authors to find relevant datasets.








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