Feature
202
the year of open data?
A growing number of mandates,
incentives and declarations are driving progress in open data, reports Rebecca Pool
If you had just one word to sum up what’s happening in the world of open data right now, it should be progress. On 15 January the International
Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers launched ‘STM 2020 Research Data Year’, an industry-wide initiative to expand the numbers of journals depositing data links as well as grow the volume of citations to datasets. Then, two weeks later, eight university
networks – representing more than 160 research-intensive universities worldwide – signed the Sorbonne Declaration on research data rights, which sets out the needs and benefits of having research data open, by default, wherever possible. As Joris van Rossum, STM research data director, highlights, key publishers
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have been striving to drive open data forward for some time now. As early as 2014, PLOS journals laid out a data policy requiring that research articles include a Data Availability Statement, providing details on how to access the relevant data for each paper so findings could be replicated. Since this time, PLOS has published more than 124,000 articles with such statements, and many other publishers and journals have followed in the company’s footsteps. Meanwhile, both Springer Nature
and Elsevier have been very clear on the importance of linking articles with datasets to bring research and data together. In a recent development, Springer Nature has granted OpenAIRE, access to all of its articles, so the EU
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