STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced a collaboration with the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) to make primary chemistry data accessible worldwide. Thieme claims to be the first publisher to offer worldwide access to primary chemistry data.
Analytical data, from various experiments, is the foundation of research work and scientific papers. From now on, primary data will be registered and made available online via the Thieme e-journals website (www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals) using digital object recognition in the form of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). This is expected to enable scientists to easily locate research articles, including accompanying data, and make enhanced use of the scientific content.
The publication of primary data will be implemented into the existing system of publications as well as their citations. Scientists who collect their own primary data or use those of others for their own ongoing work are expected to benefit. The data will be permanently saved and, by assigning them a DOI, made accessible and searchable, as well as citable and linkable. An additional positive effect is that authors receive recognition for their research work.
Primary data is scientific data gathered from experimental measurements and predominately available in electronic formats. In the field of chemistry, such data is accumulated by a variety of analytical, spectroscopic or computer simulation methods. According to observations, the vast amount of data tends to lie scattered on the computers of scientists, who have produced the information. As no central repository exists, no archival storage is possible at the moment. Scientific results are solely published in journals – but not the primary data from which those results originate. Due to the missing credit that working up such data currently receives, primary data is often poorly documented, difficult to access and not saved for the long term, it has been observed.
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