The 10 principles of open research data

The Concordat sets out 10 principles that promote access to and reuse of research data as an enabler of high quality research, while recognising the costs that can be involved. Amongst other principles, the concordat promotes: the availability of data supporting scholarly publications the use of data repositories the value of data curation to enable data access and reuse support for developing researchers’ data skills cultural norms of academia that ensure individuals can gain credit for data sharing On behalf of Springer Nature, I was pleased to play a small part in developing the document; drafted by a collaborative, multi-stakeholder working group followed by extensive public consultation with the research community. Although research organisations rather than Publishers are the target audience of the concordat, the principles have numerous implications for publishers if we genuinely wish to facilitate the communication of better research through wider access to data. Data citation is a recurring theme in the concordat, as is a “right of first use” for data generators. Data must be made available in a citable form, ideally in repositories, and “[a]ll users of research data must formally cite the data they use”. Data citation is a persistent feature of the standardised research data policies we are aiming to implement across all Springer Nature publications. And Springer Nature last month (co-chaired by BioMed Central’s Amye Kenall) helped bring together publi...
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