{"id":38,"date":"2016-09-23T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/?p=38"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:10:03","slug":"data-sharing-second-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/2016\/09\/23\/data-sharing-second-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Data sharing, second Nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature have recently updated their policies around research data with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/authors\/policies\/data\/data-availability-statements-data-citations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Data availability statement and data citations policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two points from Nature's policy are worth emphasising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all manuscripts reporting original research <strong>must<\/strong> include a data availability statement, and Nature say that \"by data we mean<br \/>\n<em>the minimal dataset that would be necessary to interpret, replicate and build upon the methods or findings reported<\/em> in the article\".<\/li>\n<li>Nature <strong>encourage<\/strong> authors to cite datasets in the reference list for your article when\u00a0those datasets have been stored in a data repository and assigned a DOI<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>Data repositories include the University's Research Data Archive as well as public repositories such those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/sdata\/policies\/repositories\" target=\"_blank\">listed by Nature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/biosharing.org\/\">BioSharing <\/a>and on our own <a href=\"http:\/\/researchdata.bath.ac.uk\/guide\/gathering-data\/discovering-research-data\/\">Research Data website page on data repositories<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nature's existing policy on data availability already requires authors to make \"material, data, code and associated protocols promptly available to readers without undue qualification\".<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/authors\/policies\/data\/data-availability-statements-data-citations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Advice and examples<\/a> are available from Nature and the University of Bath Research Data team have advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/researchdata.bath.ac.uk\/guide\/archiving-data\/writing-a-data-access-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to write data access statements<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/researchdata.bath.ac.uk\/guide\/gathering-data\/citing-research-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">citing research data<\/a>\u00a0on our website.<\/p>\n<p>Please get in touch with us with any comments or to get advice:<br \/>\nemail: <a href=\"mailto:research-data@bath.ac.uk\">research-data@bath.ac.uk <\/a>\u00a0Tel. x4791, web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/research\/data\" target=\"_blank\">www.bath.ac.uk\/research\/data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature have recently updated their policies around research data with a Data availability statement and data citations policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/researchdata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}