» The Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE) project will leverage existing networks, communities and projects to address challenges within the open access and data dissemination and preservation sector and produce policy recommendations for open access to research data based on existing good practice.
…» ORCID and ISNI are separate, independent organizations that assign identifiers to individuals and are using the same identifier format. While ISNI and ORCID have different missions and employ different processes for assigning identifiers and linking people with their works and their affiliated institutions, points of overlap between them…
» Press Release from Nature Publishing Group
4 April 2013
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today is pleased to announce the Spring 2014 launch of Scientific Data. Open for submissions this autumn, Scientific Data is a new open-access, online-only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets.…
» The OAI8 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on 19-21 June 2013.
The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600 (…) «
» University of Queensland, Leeds, Tufts, and others acknowledge the importance of Data Citation Index for discovering, attributing and leveraging prior research (…) «
» Executive summary
Scientific research revolves around the production, analysis, storage, management, and re-use of data. Data sharing offers important benefits for scientific progress and advancement of knowledge. However, several limitations and barriers in the general adoption of data sharing are still in place. Probably the most…
» La production de corpus en SHS, soutenue ces dernières années par différentes actions (telles que l’Ecole thématique sur la préservation et la diffusion numériques des sources de la recherche en SHS, Fréjus 2008, et la formation Gestion numérique des sources de la recherche en SHS, 2010, 2011)…
» The Research Data Alliance Launch and First Plenary took place in Göteborg from 18th to 20th March 2013
At its first Plenary, the RDA was launched by sponsors from the European Commission, the U. S. Government and the Australian Government and leaders in the data…
» By Greg Tananbaum SPARC Consultant March 20, 2013
Today, SPARC released a new community resource for research funders entitled, “Implementing an Open Data Policy”. This primer addresses key issues that these organizations encounter when considering the adoption and implementation of an open data…
» RDAP13, the fourth annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, takes place April 4-5, 2013 in Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. RDAP13 is a two day Summit featuring expert panel presentations curated by our RDAP planning committee, an interactive poster session, and lightning talks. Themes…
