Data Publications –persistent and citable products of research

During the past decade, the relevance of research data has been rising significantly and the free and open access not only to scientific results, but to research datasets has been identified as a key issue by the scientific community, funding agencies and the public. As a consequence, there is a dyn...

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Main Authors: Elger, K., Lehnert, K., Ulbricht, D.
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_1610894
https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_1610894_4/component/file_2268902/Elger_ICOP_2016_Book_of_Abstracts_1610894.pdf
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Summary:During the past decade, the relevance of research data has been rising significantly and the free and open access not only to scientific results, but to research datasets has been identified as a key issue by the scientific community, funding agencies and the public. As a consequence, there is a dynamic coevolution of national and international guidelines on management of and open access to research data (e.g. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, G8 Open Data Charter, EU Horizon 2020 Guidelines, etc.) and the development of concepts to make data persistently accessible and citable products of research. Especially in permafrost and climate research, longterm observatories and world-wide monitoring programmes are essential to understand the impact of, e.g., permafrost thaw on the Earth climate system and consequently of climate change. Many datasets are online available, via data portals or databases like, e.g. at the National Snow and Ice Datacentre, the GTN-P Database, NORPERM, Fluxnet, etc., but often without the possibility to give the data providers recognition and acknowledgement for contributing data to a global network. During the past years, the publication of research datasets with assigned digital object identifier (DOI) has emerged as best practice for citable and persistent open access research data together with the deserved recognition of the data providers. An important step for the international acceptance and recognition of DOI-referenced data publication is the‘Statement of Commitment’of the Coalition for Data Publication in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS) that aims to promote joint policies and procedures for the publication and citation of data across Earth Science journals. Key commitments, signed by many publishers and data centres, are the acceptance of data citations within reference lists of research articles, the improvement of cross-references between journal articles and published datasets, and the strong recommendation to, whenever ...