“Scientific Data” Discusses “Inconsistencies in Repository Naming” in New Editorial
From a Scientific Data Editorial:
When a scholarly publication refers to a dataset hosted at a public repository, it is best practice to acknowledge the hosting repository by including its name and other key information in a formal data citation. During our standard editorial checks of data citations prior to publication, we routinely encounter inconsistencies in repository naming.
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Today, we are calling on the repositories with whom we work to check that their repository’s name is consistently recorded on their webpages, and in any indices that track their repository or datasets.
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Ensuring consistency in data citations will help to increase the stability of research data infrastructure, leading to more reliable data for all stakeholders.
Read the Complete Editorial (523 words)
Scientific Data is published by Nature.
Filed under: Data Files, News, Open Access
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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