1. Now launched! Visit nature.com/scientificdata Email scientificdata@nature.com Tweet @ScientificData Honorary Academic Editor Susanna-Assunta Sansone Advisory Panel and Editorial Board including senior researchers, funders, librarians and curators Supported by Helping you publish, discover and reuse research data

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3. Get Credit for Sharing Your Data Publications will be indexed and citeable. Open-access Authors select from three Creative Commons licenses for the main Data Descriptor. 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

4. Data Descriptor Experimental metadata or structured component (in-house curated, machine-readable formats) Article or narrative component (PDF and HTML)

5. Focus on data reuse Sections: Title Abstract Background & Summary Methods Technical Validation Data Records Usage Notes Figures & Tables References Data Citations Data Descriptor Detailed descriptions of the methods and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. Does not contain tests of new scientific hypotheses Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles by the Data Citation Synthesis Group, incl.: -CODATA -Research Data Alliance, -Force11

6. In-house curation team: assists users to submit the structured content via simple templates and an internal authoring tool performs value-added semantic annotation of the experimental metadata For advanced users/service providers willing to export ISA-Tab for direct submission, we have released a technical specification: analysis method script Data file or record in a database Data Descriptor structured metadata (CC0)

7. Peer-review at Scientific Data The completeness of the description Alignment with community standards Data deposition in an appropriate repository Technical quality of the measurements Reuse value

8. The right licence for the right content Data: the primary datasets will reside in public repositories. Partnering with figshare and Dryad, which both use the CC0 waiver. Metadata: released under the CC0 waiver to maximize reuse and aid data miners Data Descriptor article: Licensed under one of three Creative Commons licenses, by author choice:

9. Linking between research papers, Data Descriptors, and data records Making data discoverable

10. Synthesis Analysis Conclusions What did I do to generate the data? How was the data processed? Where is the data? Who did what when Methods and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. Do not contain tests of new scientific hypotheses Data Descriptor relation with traditional articles

11. Environmental New Dataset Data in figshare Code in figshare Integrated figshare data viewer Cited in Science

12. Stem Cells Associated Nature Article Data at figshare & NCBI GEO Integrated figshare data viewer