Promoting research data sharing at Springer Nature

We want to enable our authors to publish the best research and maximize the benefit of research funding, which includes achieving good practice in the sharing and archiving of research data. We also aim to facilitate authors’ compliance with institution and research funder requirements to share data. We are developing services to support implementation of the policies and aim to have the most comprehensive and inclusive research data policy of any large publisher. To help accomplish these goals we are introducing a set of standardized research data policies that can be easily adopted by journals and understood by authors. We are developing services to support implementation of the policies and aim to have the most comprehensive and inclusive research data policy of any large publisher. These new policies and services aim to: improve author service and experience by standardizing research data policies and procedures between journals where appropriate improve reader service by providing more consistent links between publications and data improve editor and peer reviewer service by providing more consistent guidelines and support for research data policies, and increased visibility of data in the peer-review process encourage publication of more open and reproducible research increase growth and innovation in research data sharing provide a dedicated Research Data Support helpdesk for Springer Nature authors and editors The journal research data policy landscape is current...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Publishing editorial policy Springer Nature Source Type: blogs