A new pilot project by Springer Nature and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) enables researchers to make their research datasets accessible alongside their published articles.
From February 2019, all authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication by npj Breast Cancer will be reviewed by a Research Data Editor who is responsible for cataloguing, describing and sharing the datasets that accompany the research paper.
The dedicated editors, who work as part of Springer Nature's Research Data Support services team, will help authors draft detailed descriptions of the datasets supporting their articles and deposit datasets in a newly-created journal data repository. The editors also give advice on de-identifying data about human research participants, and help authors write detailed data availability statements.
This pilot project is expected to run for the majority of 2019 and is part of an ongoing collaboration between Springer Nature and BCRF to promote robust, long-term access to research data. Other initiatives to further this goal include Springer Nature-led training workshops for BCRF grantees to encourage good data practice. Attendees of such a workshop in October 2018 said that they would be much more likely to share their data after having received this professional training.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.
