As part of STM’s continued commitment to boost the effective sharing of research data, it was announced that it had deepened its collaboration with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) – a community-driven initiative launched in 2013 which aims to build the social and technical infrastructure to enable open sharing and the re-use of data. A joint letter of intent was signed by STM’s CEO Ian Moss and RDA’s Secretary General Hilary Hanahoe at an online ceremony on July 13, 2020.
Data sharing plays a vital role in ensuring research reproducibility and of preserving the integrity of the scholarly record. Good data practices improve the availability, discoverability and re-usability of research, while helping to aid the ongoing development of Open Science.
As part of STM’s Research Data Year the partnership aims to promote the uptake of standards and recommended practices that have been developed within and by RDA. The two organisations pledged to intensify their collaboration on promoting the adoption of Data Availability Statements (DASs) by academic journals as recommended by the RDA Interest Group on Data Policy Standardisation and implementation; increasing the uptake of SCHOLIX, the universal reference model for linking data and publications which was developed by the RDA / WDS Publishing Data Services Working Group; raising the consciousness of the data citation principles as recommended by RDA, DataCite and FORCE11; increase the awareness for RDA’s COVID-19 Research Data Recommendation and Guidelines; and further socialising the TRUST Principles for digital repositories as produced by the RDA / WDS Certification of Digital Repositories.
In addition, STM and RDA have agreed to share and exchange their expertise and experiences on FAIR research data sharing and will assist each other in relevant working groups, interest groups, steering committees, advisory boards and at workshops, seminars, events and conferences.
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