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Brian Hole
Workshop on Open Access for Health Scientists and Professionals, Kampala, 30 August 2013
Incentivizing Data Sharing:
The Journal of Open Public Health Data

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Overview
 Why share data?
 How do data
journals work?
 The Journal of
Open Public
Health Data

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The Social Contract
of Science
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Publishers
• Researchers
• Libraries, repositories…

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Repositories
Modified from: XKCD

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Metajournals as incentives

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Why data journals?
Amsterdam manifesto:
4. A data citation in a publication should
resemble a bibliographic citation and be
located in the publication’s reference list.
• Data can (and should) be cited using DataCite DOIs
in articles, but this is not enough.
• Researchers understand the value of papers
• University departments and the REF understand
papers
• Researchers know where to put paper refs, no
need for extra guidelines
• Publishers routinely strip out anything else
• Familiar impact metrics can be collected

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What is a data paper?
A data paper is not…
• … a research paper. A data paper only
describes a dataset. But it will reference
research papers that are based on the data.
• … simply replication of the information in a
data repository.
A data paper…
• … describes the methodology with which
a dataset was created.
• … describes the dataset itself.
• … details the reuse potential of the data.
• … is often authored by a data scientist.
• … is citable, enabling reuse to be tracked.

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1. The paper contents
a. The methods section of the paper must provide
sufficient detail that a reader can understand how
the resource was created.
b. The resource must be correctly described.
c. The reuse section must provide concrete and useful
suggestions for reuse of the reuse.
2. The deposited resource
a. The repository must be suitable for resource
and have a sustainability model.
b. Open license permits unrestricted access (e.g. CC0).
c. A version in an open, non-proprietary format.
d. Labeled in such a way that a 3rd party can make
sense of it.
e. Must be actionable.
Peer review
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