FROM DATA REPOSITORIES TO DATA JOURNALS – WHERE, WHEN AND HOW TO SUBMIT Andrew L. Hufton Managing Editor, Scientific Data Nature Publishing Group Publishing better science through better data Nov 14 th, 2014

What do authors and readers say… Storing Data: The majority of participants say that some or all of their data is stored locally and not published.

What do authors and readers say… Using Data: The majority of participants look for other researchers datasets, with more than half doing so once a month or more for each data type, and between a fifth and a quarter doing so once a week or more frequently.

Find the right repository for your data

What to look for in a data repository Quality curation A commitment to long-term preservation Features that support collaborative analysis Features that allow you keep data private until you are ready to publish. Investigate data archiving options at your institution

Find the right repository for your data Browse our recommended data repository online. We currently list more than 60 repositories, across the biological, physical and social sciences We advise authors on the best place to store their data

Find the right repository for your data When a specific data repository does not exist for your field, we recommend:

Publish your data

The Data Journal concept Data must be well described before others can use it and benefit from it. Scientists who share data in a reusable manner deserve credit through citable publications. Data quality matters 9

A diversity of new data journals In PubMed 39 Pending Gigascience (Data Notes) 11 9 Yes F1000R (Data Notes) Yes Biodiversity Data Journal (Data Paper) 1 9 Yes Earth System Science Data 5 20 No Ubiquity metajournals Journal of Open Archaeology Data 9 23 No Open Health Data 5 7 No Journal of Open Psychology Data 1 6 No 10 Data publications per year

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Get Credit for Sharing Your Data Publications will be indexed and citeable. Open-access Articles are published by default under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY). Each publication supported by CCO metadata. Focused on Data Reuse All the information others need to reuse the data; no interpretative analysis, or hypothesis testing Peer-reviewed Rigorous peer-review focused on technical data quality and reuse value Promoting Community Data Repositories Not a new data repository; data stored in community data repositories

When might you submit a manuscript to a data journal? Publish your data early Publish a data paper alongside your research publications Describe standalone datasets that don’t fit in your other publications Release data used in your previous research articles 13

Publish early: screening data Full screen data for RNAi knockdown of 238 genes Data at figshare & GenomeRNAi Findings from specific hits published later at PLOS One

Publish alongside: major consortiums See the Focus on RNA sequencing quality control (SEQC) In the September issue of Nature Biotechnology A comprehensive assessment of RNA-seq accuracy, reproducibility and information content by the Sequencing Quality Control Consortium SEQC/MAQC-III Consortium | doi: /nbt.2957 The concordance between RNA-seq and microarray data depends on chemical treatment and transcript abundance Wang et al. | doi: /nbt.3001 Cross-platform ultradeep transcriptomic profiling of human reference RNA samples by RNA-Seq Xu et al. | doi: /sdata Transcriptomic profiling of rat liver samples in a comprehensive study design by RNA-Seq Gong et al. | doi: /sdata

Publish after: Earth sciences Data in at BODC/NERC Builds on previous article at Nature Geoscience

Publish standalone data Code in GitHub New Dataset Data in OpenfMRI Source code in GitHub Big Data

Get the most from your data Preserve it Encourage reuse Get credit

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