1. Data + Research Elements What Publishers Can Do (and Are Doing) to Facilitate Data Integration and Attribution David Parsons – Lawrence, KS, 13th February 2018

3. Data is important, but hard to access
Researcher survey, 3824 respondents
(Publishing Research Consortium, 2010)
Ease of access
Importance of access 3

4. Data storage is very fragmented
Researcher survey, 1202 respondents (PARSE.insight 2010) 3

5. Elsevier data initiatives:
Gradual Implementation of TOP Guidelines
Mendeley Data + Linking articles with data
Research Elements Journals
External Repositories Linking
More at:

6. Funders, associations, and institutes increasingly require data sharing

7. Comprehensive Journal Data Guidelines

8. Elsevier Framework via TOP Guideline Publisher and Editor Decide:
Elsevier proposes journal data guidelines in line with existing frameworks
Elsevier Framework via TOP Guideline
Publisher and Editor Decide:
Option A: Encouraging Research Data deposit and citation
Authors are encouraged to:
- deposit their research data in a relevant data repository; and to
- cite this dataset in their article
Option B: Encouraging Research Data deposit, citation and linking, or a Research Data Availability Statement where this is not possible.
DEFAULT
- deposit their research data in a relevant data repository;
- cite and link to the dataset in their article;
and where this is not possible to
- Make a statement explaining why research data cannot be shared.
Option C: Requiring Research Data deposit, citation and linking or a Research Data Availability Statement where this is not possible.
Authors are required to:
 - cite and link to the dataset in their article; or
- Make a statement explaining why the research data cannot be shared.
Option D:
Requiring Research Data deposit, citation and linking
 - cite and link to the dataset in their article
Option E: Requiring Research Data deposit, citation and linking or a Research Data Availability Statement where this is not possible. Research Data will be peer reviewed prior to publication.
 - cite and link to the dataset in their article.
In addition:
- Peer reviewers are asked to review the data prior to publication*

9. Making it easy for authors to share data
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10. Implementing the data guidelines
C > configure as mandatory B
D > remove statement
E > add data peer review

11. Mendeley Data

12. Linked to published papers – or not
Linked to Github – or not
Versioning and provenance
Allowing Different Licenses

13. Research Elements Journals

14. The Research Elements program
Data
articles
Software articles
Method articles
Protocol
Video
Hardware articles
Lab resources
Full Research
paper
Research Elements articles:
Are complementary to original research articles
Are easy to prepare and submit
Are peer-reviewed and will be indexed
Enable other researchers to cite and re-use information
Make new types of information discoverable
Have a quick and transparent editorial process
More info:

15. Data in Brief: open access data journal at Elsevier
Overview
Place to describe datasets in any scientific discipline.
Data articles are purely descriptive and do not provide functional data nor interpretation.
Data articles are intended to facilitate data reuse and reproducibility
All data described must be made publicly available, either with the article or in a public repository
All authors fill in a standard data article template available at:
Specifications table with direct link to data
Value of the Data
Materials and Methods
All Data in Brief articles receive the CC-BY license
Open access fee is $500
100 select journals are part of a pricing experiment until January $250
Find out more at:

16. Two ways to publish in Data in Brief:
For authors who have stand-alone data
Authors fill in the Data in Brief template and either directly supply data files with the article, or link to the files in a public repository
The data article is sent for external peer review:
Compliance to the template
Is the data adequate? Does it make sense? Why is it useful?
Is the protocol for generating data adequate?
Data format (is it standard for the field? potentially re-usable?)
Are sufficient captions/labels provided? Is the data well documented?
Additional checks (prior to peer review)
Data and text duplication
Completeness of metadata
File format consistency
For Participating journals at Elsevier:
During the submission process, the author has the opportunity to co-submit a data article for Data in Brief. Information is available in the Guide for Authors.
Interested authors complete a Data in Brief template and submit it directly with their manuscript (so it is available for peer review as support to the manuscript)
For those that have not, in the manuscript revision letter, Authors are invited to convert their supplementary material into a data article for Data in Brief.
If the manuscript is accepted, their data article is sent directly to Data in Brief for peer review; any necessary revisions are requested of the authors
Direct submission
Publish and get credit for data
Co-submission
With the main research article
~820 participating journals

17. How Partner Journal Interfaces Change with RE Implemented
1: Upon submission, same as Mendeley
2: Via automated revision letters
YOU CAN OPT IN OR OUT FOR EITHER OR BOTH OF THESE.

18. Research Article and data article are interlinked on Science Direct
Data in Brief clearly links back to related research article
Both articles cite each other in the reference list.

19. Data in Brief Specifications Table – Linking Back to Dataset
Data can be
within article OR
In a public repository
(i.e., Mendeley Data, above)

20. Data-linking at Elsevier
Elsevier has an extensive program with 50+ leading domain-specific data repositories to interlink articles and data
Makes it easier to find relevant data and place data into the right context
Linking through in-article accession numbers, data DOI’s, or data banners
Linking through in-article data accession numbers
Database banners shown next to the article on ScienceDirect
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21. Dynamic Linking to External Repositories
Links to primary data stored at domain-specific data repositories

22. Thank You!
Questions?