Get credit for your data – BMC Research Notes launches data notes

Data is becoming increasingly more important. Researchers tell us they are motivated to share data to progress research, to receive more credit and visibility for their work and to comply with funder policies. Springer Nature’s wider data plan aims to develop products and services to help researchers make their data FAIRer (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable). Earlier in the year we have introduced our pilot Data Support Services which help authors comply with funder and journal policies, prepare their data for deposition in a repository and enhance their peer-reviewed publications. The data is stored in the Springer Nature portal in the Figshare repository and DOIs are provided as unique persistent links to dataset(s) to enable citation. These services to researchers build on the expertise in the Scientific Data team, which provides a publication venue for highly structured and curated data descriptors of scientifically valuable research. Now we are launching the next puzzle piece that we think will help researchers with making the most of their data with a fast-turnaround, short article type – the data note. Data note at BMC Research Notes Earlier this year, BMC Research Notes was re-structured with a focus on short note articles. We introduced research note as an article type to provide a vehicle for a wide variety of short communications such as confirmatory results, single observations and null results among others where authors have analyzed data, pre...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Open Access Publishing BMC Research Notes data data note Source Type: blogs