TY - JOUR
T1 - Playing Well on the Data FAIRground: Initiatives and Infrastructure in Research Data Management
AU - Descoteaux, Danielle
AU - Farinelli, Chiara
AU - Soares E Silva, Marina
AU - Waard, Anita
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Over the past five years, Elsevier has focused on implementing FAIR and best practices in data management, from data preservation through reuse. In this paper we describe a series of efforts undertaken in this time to support proper data management practices. In particular, we discuss our journal data policies and their implementation, the current status and future goals for the research data management platform Mendeley Data, and clear and persistent linkages to individual data sets stored on external data repositories from corresponding published papers through partnership with Scholix. Early analysis of our data policies implementation confirms significant disparities at the subject level regarding data sharing practices, with most uptake within disciplines of Physical Sciences. Future directions at Elsevier include implementing better discoverability of linked data within an article and incorporating research data usage metrics.
AB - Over the past five years, Elsevier has focused on implementing FAIR and best practices in data management, from data preservation through reuse. In this paper we describe a series of efforts undertaken in this time to support proper data management practices. In particular, we discuss our journal data policies and their implementation, the current status and future goals for the research data management platform Mendeley Data, and clear and persistent linkages to individual data sets stored on external data repositories from corresponding published papers through partnership with Scholix. Early analysis of our data policies implementation confirms significant disparities at the subject level regarding data sharing practices, with most uptake within disciplines of Physical Sciences. Future directions at Elsevier include implementing better discoverability of linked data within an article and incorporating research data usage metrics.
KW - Data citation
KW - Data sharing
KW - Open data
KW - Open research
UR - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dint_a_00020
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/playing-data-fairground-initiatives-infrastructure-research-data-management
U2 - 10.1162/dint_a_00020
DO - 10.1162/dint_a_00020
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 350
EP - 367
JO - Data Intelligence
JF - Data Intelligence
IS - 4
ER -