STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Dryad Digital Repository, an archive for scientific and medical research data, have implemented two-way linking between their respective content.
The Dryad Digital Repository provides facilities for archiving, discovery and accessibility of data files associated with any published article in the sciences or medicine, as well as software scripts and other files important to the article. Dryad is a non-profit organisation committed to its mission of making data publicly available for research and educational reuse. All datasets stored by Dryad receive persistent, resolvable Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to allow their proper citation.
Scientific and medical research datasets stored by Dryad for research articles published in 28 Elsevier journals can now be immediately accessed at Dryad from their online article on ScienceDirect and vice versa. This allows readers to easily find the background information they need in order to develop a deeper understanding of the article, and helps to place the article in a larger context.
This type of linking between articles and data is one of the pillars of Article of the Future, Elsevier's on-going programme to improve the format of the scientific article. Elsevier collaborates with more than thirty data repositories, and is continually looking to collaborate with other relevant organisations.
