Data Sharing and Discovery: What Librarians Need to Know

MacMillan, Don

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.06.011

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“…Los científicos a menudo tienen fuertes alicientes para mantener la confidencialidad, al menos hasta el momento de la publicación; incentivos apoyados e incluso ordenados por los procedimientos y políticas de las instituciones donde trabajan (Contreras 2010). 3) Los espacios de diálogo entre investigadores para obtener datos comparables (estandarizados) requieren esfuerzos extras de revisión, autorización, subida y publicación, acciones que implican tiempo y pericia (Azberger et al 2004;Pinowar 2010;Frank et al 2015;Destro Bisol et al 2014a;MacMillan 2014). Estos aspectos, pueden presentar mayor o menor relevancia en grupos pequeños o en campos con escasa financiación (Destro Bisol et al 2014b).…”

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“…Estos aspectos, pueden presentar mayor o menor relevancia en grupos pequeños o en campos con escasa financiación (Destro Bisol et al 2014b). Este esfuerzo se ve aún más limitado por la falta de reconocimiento de la comunidad científica hacia esta labor (Pinowar 2010;Chavan y Penev 2011;Kansa y Kansa 2013;MacMillan 2014). Esto conlleva, que con frecuencia los metadatos estén pobremente documentados o sean prácticamente inexistentes, a pesar de su importancia para un buen desarrollo del data sharing (Chavan y Penev 2011;MacMillan 2014).…”

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Información bioantropológica publicada de Patagonia Austral. Un abordaje de la situación actual desde el data-sharing

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Información bioantropológica publicada de Patagonia Austral. Un abordaje de la situación actual desde el data-sharing

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“…These developments have resulted in more journals requiring and facilitating the publication of online supplements of data and methods, as well as the increasing use of data repositories (Bishoff & Johnston, 2015;Ray, 2014;Tenopir et al, 2015). While the challenges and complexities of sharing scientific research data through data repositories have been discussed in depth in numerous recent papers (Borgman, 2012;Caetano & Aisenberg, 2014;MacMillan, 2014;Tenopir et al, 2011;Thessen & Patterson, 2011), relatively few studies have focused specifically on the role of journal supplementary materials as a data sharing option. It should be noted for the present discussion that supplementary data sharing is done primarily through the journal website, with few exceptions.…”

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The Journal Article as a Means to Share Data: a Content Analysis of Supplementary Materials from Two Disciplines

Kenyon

Sprague

Flathers

2016

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION The practice of publishing supplementary materials with journal articles is becoming increasingly prevalent across the sciences. We sought to understand better the content of these materials by investigating the differences between the supplementary materials published by authors in the geosciences and plant sciences. METHODS We conducted a random stratified sampling of four articles from each of 30 journals published in 2013. In total, we examined 297 supplementary data files for a range of different factors. RESULTS We identified many similarities between the practices of authors in the two fields, including the formats used (Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs) and the small size of the files. There were differences identified in the content of the supplementary materials: the geology materials contained more maps and machine-readable data; the plant science materials included much more tabular data and multimedia content. DISCUSSION Our results suggest that the data shared through supplementary files in these fields may not lend itself to reuse. Code and related scripts are not often shared, nor is much ‘raw’ data. Instead, the files often contain summary data, modified for human reading and use. CONCLUSION Given these and other differences, our results suggest implications for publishers, librarians, and authors, and may require shifts in behavior if effective data sharing is to be realized.External Data or Supplements:Kenyon, Jeremy; Sprague, Nancy; Flathers, Edward, 2016, "Data from: The journal article as a means to share data: a content analysis of supplementary materials from two disciplines", http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DCSMGP, Harvard Dataverse.

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“…Bell, Foster and Gibbons argue that the issue of populating the repository with full-text materials is the most significant barrier to the success of an IR [4]. Librarians are often tasked with providing support to faculties for research data services, though many do not have su cient training in understanding issues such as data storage, discoverability, and the workflow of researchers [5]. Librarians, often the managers or curators of these repositories, approach scholarship from a very di↵erent perspective to researchers.…”

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Redesigning the Open-Access Institutional Repository: A User Experience Approach

Luca

Narayan

2016

Digital Libraries: Knowledge, Information, and Data in an Open Access Society

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Abstract. This paper details how a university library evaluated its institutional repository using a user experience design (UXD) methodology and redesigned it based on the findings. The online repository, running on DSpace, was not being utilized as expected by academics and researchers, so a detailed user evaluation and usability study was undertaken to find out the reasons why. Findings showed lack of usability and a mismatch between user expectations and system architecture. Hence, significant improvements were made to the user interface, and in communicating the status of items held in the repository (open or closed access). The authors assess the impact of these changes and argue that better usability results in greater visibility of the open-access repository, and hence, greater visibility for the university's researchers. Other challenges regarding the adoption of open access by academics and researchers at the university are also discussed.

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Data Sharing and Discovery: What Librarians Need to Know

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Información bioantropológica publicada de Patagonia Austral. Un abordaje de la situación actual desde el data-sharing

Información bioantropológica publicada de Patagonia Austral. Un abordaje de la situación actual desde el data-sharing

The Journal Article as a Means to Share Data: a Content Analysis of Supplementary Materials from Two Disciplines

Redesigning the Open-Access Institutional Repository: A User Experience Approach

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