Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Data Librarians in Public Libraries

What would a data librarian look like in a public library?

A question and answer from the creator of databrarians.org - http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/05/data-librarians-in-public-libraries/

Friday, 26 June 2015

Datacite and DOI Names for Research Data

A recent paper by Janna Neumann and Jan Brase: Neumann J, Brase J. Datacite and DOI Names for Research Data. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 2014 2014/10/01;28(10):1035-1041. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10822-014-9776-5

To Share or not to Share? That is the (Research Data) Question

While not specifically about data citation, this post on The Scholarly Kitchen presenting results of a survey undertaken by Wiley on how and why researchers share data is likely to be of interest to this community. I'll look forward to seeing the report ...

Data citation article in special OA issue of Learned Publishing

Callaghan S. Preserving the Integrity of the Scientific Record: Data Citation and Linking. Learned Publishing. 2014;27(5):15-24.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2014/00000027/00000005/art00004http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20140504

The topic of this special issue of Learned Publishing is data publishing, and all content of the issue is open access; included are an article on the Research Data Alliance by Andrew Treloar, one on altmetrics, and one on libraries and librarians in data management (there are others, as well).
Table of Contents: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2014/00000027/00000005