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Category: data policy
New at Dryad: Support for NIH-funded researchers
As the National Institutes of Health (NIH) new Policy for Data Management and Sharing goes into effect, NIH-funded researchers may be wondering how to ensure they comply with the new requirements. Dryad’s curated data publishing service provides …
In case you missed it: Delivering on your data sharing policy with Dryad
Journal editors and publishers looking to deliver on their open data sharing policies and advance their open science strategies were invited to join Dryad’s Head of Publishing Services, Jess Herzog and Wiley’s Senior Commissioning Editor, Gareth Jenkin…
For publishers: Delivering on your data sharing policy
What: Webinar – Delivering on your journal’s data sharing policy with Dryad When: Wednesday, June 28 at 5:00 PM UTC Where: Register here for this virtual event Journal editors and publishers looking to deliver on their open data sharing policies …
New at Dryad: Maria Guerreiro appointed Head of Partnership Development
As a member-driven non-profit, Dryad collaborates with an international network of partners to sustain our work furthering the open sharing and reuse of research data. Maria is an open science advocate who enjoys working collaboratively with researcher…
The overall incidence of published replication studies in economics is minuscule – greater incentives are required
Replicability is considered a hallmark of good scientific practice, an important post-publication quality check. But how many studies are chosen for replication? Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner have examined the economics literature and find that only one in one thousand publications are replication studies. The introduction of mandatory data disclosure policies may help to increase the […]
The main obstacles to better research data management and sharing are cultural. But change is in our hands
Recommendations on how to better support researchers in good data management and sharing practices are typically focused on developing new tools or improving infrastructure. Yet research shows the most common obstacles are actually cultural, not technological. Marta Teperek and Alastair Dunning outline how appointing data stewards and data champions can be key to improving research data management through positive cultural change. This […]
Research data should be available long-term…but who is going to pay?
There is now a broad consensus that sharing and preserving data makes research more efficient, reproducible and potentially innovative. As such, most funding bodies now require research data to be stored, preserved, and made available long-term. But who is going to pay for this to happen? Marta Teperek and Alastair Dunning outline how the costs of long-term data preservation are […]
A new high-level policy analysis sheds more light on Europe’s open data and open science policies
A collaboration between the Digital Curation Center and SPARC Europe, the Analysis of Open Data and Open Science Policies in Europe report published in May. The report analyses national policies on research data management throughout Europe. Here, Martin Donnelly shares some of the findings. A majority of policies were owned by or heavily involved national research funders, laying out expectations […]
Hallelujah and praise the LARD! The first London Area Research Data group meeting
This is a guest post by Laurence Horton, Data Librarian at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) It was a hot and stormy day; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when I dodged … Continue reading →