Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced a partnership with LabArchives LLC to ensure that valuable datasets are made publically available and linked to journal articles. Through this new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software.
Sharing and reuse of data are seen to have become a vital part of modern scientific research. Having access to datasets ensures that the pace of scientific discovery is not unnecessarily hindered by data being kept under lock and key or hidden away in lab drawers. BioMed Central has partnered with LabArchives to shed further light on science's 'dark data'.
LabArchives provides an easy-to-use platform which scientists can utilise to store and publish their laboratory data. The special BioMed Central version of LabArchives will provide authors with 100 MB of complimentary storage and optional integrated submission to BioMed Central's journals. Published datasets can be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which serves as a permanent identifier for a data set, making data more discoverable and citable, helping to enable scientists to get credit for publishing their data and permanently link journal articles to supporting data.
