Kerstin Helbig

Supporting Data Citation: Experiences and Best Practices of a DOI Allocation Agency for Social Sciences

INTRODUCTION As more and more research data becomes better and more easily available, data citation gains in importance. The management of research data has been high on the agenda in academia for more than five years. Nevertheless, not all data policies include data citation, and problems like versioning and granularity remain. SERVICE DESCRIPTION da|ra operates as an allocation agency for DataCite and offers the registration service for social and economic research data in Germany. The service is jointly run by GESIS and ZBW, thereby merging experiences on the fields of Social Sciences and Economics. The authors answer questions pertaining to the most frequent aspects of research data registration like versioning and granularity as well as recommend the use of persistent identifiers linked with enriched metadata at the landing page. NEXT STEPS The promotion of data sharing and the development of a citation culture among the scientific community are future challenges. Interoperability becomes increasingly important for publishers and infrastructure providers. The already existent heterogeneity of services demands solutions for better user guidance. Building information competence is an asset of libraries, which can and should be expanded to research data.

Research traditions and emerging expectations: PhD students and their research data management

Research data management has become an important topic for research institutions around the world. More and more funders demand transparent research as well as data management plans. In accordance, universities start implementing data policies to further proper data handling. Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin wanted to shed light on doctoral candidates’ current research data management. Therefore a short survey was conducted in 2015 with 187 participants. Results show that a majority of the respondents uses digital research data for their dissertations. Of those doctoral candidates only a minority has a concept for archiving their research data. Even though preservation is unclear, many PhD students with digital data plan to make it open. In compliance with these results a subsequent workshop for doctoral candidates was organized. Especially PhD students from the humanities expressed difficulties to name their produced or analyzed research data. They also mentioned legal concerns more often than other doctoral candidates. Students from the sciences had a better understanding of research data management. Reservations against data sharing were rare among them.

KOBV-Sonderedition zur International Open Access Week 2016 „Open in Action“

An der internationalen Open-Access-Woche 2016 vom 24.-28. Oktober war der KOBV erstmalig mit einem Online „Publishing Event“ beteiligt. An funf aufeinanderfolgenden Tagen erschien taglich eine Sonderausgabe des KOBV-Newsletters zu ausgewahlten Open-Access-Themen. Die einzelnen Beitrage sind in dieser Sonderedition als Online-Reader zusammengestellt. Der aktuelle Diskussionsstand zum jeweiligen Thema wird von Expertinnen und Experten in kurzen Ubersichtsartikeln vorgestellt und mit Praxistipps erganzt. Zielgruppe sind vor allem Bibliothekare und Bibliothekarinnen, die sich einen schnellen Uberblick zu Open Access verschaffen wollen.

Best Practice Guide for the Registration of Resources with da|ra. Version 1.0

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