Guidelines on Recommending Data Repositories as Partners in Publishing Research Data

Sarah Callaghan,Fiona Murphy,John Kunze,Angus Whyte,Jonathan Tedds,Timothy Roberts,Varsha Khodiyar,Rebecca Lawrence,Matthew S Mayernik

doi:10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.309

Abstract

This document summarises guidelines produced by the UK Jisc-funded PREPARDE data publication project on the key issues of repository accreditation. It aims to lay out the principles and the requirements for data repositories intent on providing a dataset as part of the research record and as part of a research publication. The data publication requirements that repository accreditation may support are rapidly changing, hence this paper is intended as a provocation for further discussion and development in the future.

Highlights

The Peer REview for Publication and Accreditation of Research data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) project1 was led by the University of Leicester and funded by Jisc and NERC
It aimed to investigate the policies and procedures required for the formal publication of research data, in particular focussing on those required for the smooth operation of a data journal
It is anticipated that these guidelines will continue to be updated and revised as data publication becomes common place, e.g. through the new Publishing Data and Certification of Digital Repositories Interest Groups of the Research Data Alliance, and as repository accreditation schemes gain members

Summary

Introduction

The Peer REview for Publication and Accreditation of Research data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) project1 was led by the University of Leicester and funded by Jisc and NERC. Part of the project investigated the criteria needed for a repository to be considered trustworthy, the following guidelines were written and reviewed by the many members of the data-publication email list2 set up by the project.

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