Presentation at session 3 of the NIH workshop 'Role of Generalist Repositories to Enhance Data Discoverability and Reuse' on Feb 11th, at the NIH Main Campus.

1. What role can publishers play
in the open data ecosystem?
Varsha Khodiyar, PhD
NIH workshop: Enabling Data Re-use
11th February 2020
IllustrationinspiredbytheworkofChienShiungWu

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Why share research data?

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Understanding researcher perspectives on data sharing
1. Practical Challenges for researchers in data sharing. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5975011.v1
2. The State of Open Data Report 2018. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7195058.v2
3. Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing in China. (2019). https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7718441.v1
4. Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing in Japan https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7999451.v1
5. The State of Open Data 2019. figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9980783.v2

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Reported motivations for sharing data
from The State of Open Data 2019 and 2018 surveys
Which circumstances would motivate you to share your data?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Increased impact and visibility of my research
Public benefit
Getting proper credit for sharing data
Journal/publisher requirement
Transparency and re-use
Funder requirement
Institution/organisation requirement
Trust the person requesting my data
It was made easy and simple to do so
Freedom of information request
It was a field/industry expectation
Other (please specify)
I would never share my data
2018
2019

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RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
Credit and visibility for data

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Credit with data focused publications
www.nature.com/scientificdata
https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com
Data Descriptor
Data peer review
Sound science
Emphasis on enabling
data reuse
Data Note
Short format
Sound science
Emphasise on data
sharing

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Increasing visibility of data
Linking papers to their supporting data in
a repository associated with an average
25% increase in citations
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/1907.02565

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Reported concerns about sharing data
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
I have no desire to share my data
Other
Others may not be able to repeat my findings
Others may find errors
Data are too small or unimportant
No concerns about sharing data
Data are too large to share
Another lab may make a different interpretation of my data
Not know what repository to use
Contain sensitive information
Lack of time to deposit data
Organising data in a presentable and useful way
Unsure I have the rights to share
Costs of sharing data
Not receiving appropriate credit or acknowledgement
Unsure about copyright and licensing
Concerns about misuse of data
2019
2018
from The State of Open Data 2019 and 2018 surveys
What problems/concerns do you have with sharing datasets?

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RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
Practical advice, help and training

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Advice and guidance
• Research Data Helpdesk researchdata@springernature.com
• Run by members of the Springer Nature Data Publishing team
• Expertise in data curation and management, archiving and digital
preservation, copyright and licensing, Open Access publishing
• Guidance on writing data availability statements
• Contextual examples from all disciplines
• Recommended repositories list
• More than 100 repositories; transparent criteria for approval
• Supports community/discipline-specific repositories

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https://partnerships.nature.com/product/nature-research-academies-research-data-workshops/
Developing researchers’ data sharing skills

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To help researchers and journals follow good practice in sharing and archiving
of research data, we now offer optional data deposition and curation services
for any journal in any discipline.
Research Data Support service
Researchers
submit their
data files
securely
The Research
Data team
curates the data
and metadata
The data are
published and
linked to the
author’s paper
More information is available on our website
https://go.nature.com/ResearchDataServices

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Addition of missing information
Error correction
Suggestions
to increase
FAIRness
Improvements to manuscript tables, text or figures to aid
understanding and reuse of the work
Data access or data license conditions updated at repository or
manuscript to aid accessibility
Repository metadata improved to aid dataset discoverability
Improvements to file names and/or file structure at the repository
to aid understanding and reuse of the work
Possible outcomes of curation
Manuscript
text
Manuscript
figure
Manuscript
table
Data files at
the repository

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When researchers share their data in a
reusable way we see…

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According to CrossREF,
cited 130 times.
(February 2020)
Data reuse and citation by researchers

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Data reuse by (some of) the same researchers
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Data reuse by other researchers in the same field
The data paper made it easier
to use the data, for me it was
critical that everything was
there…all the technical details
like voxel size.
Prof. Daniele Marinazzo

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Data reuse by the non-research community
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/30/science/history-of-ebola-in-24-outbreaks.html

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Top motivations for sharing data are credit & visibility, and public
benefit
Top concerns about sharing data are misuse and lack of
knowledge
 Publishers can facilitate data publications and data linking to
support credit & visibility for data generators
 Publishers can support ‘lack of knowledge’ barriers with advice,
guidance, training and curation support
 Mitigating concerns about data misuse requires cultural change
 Data shared in a reusable way ARE reused by a wide range of
stakeholders
Summary

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The story behind the image
Chien Shiung Wu (1912–1997)
Chien Shiung Wu was a Chinese American experimental
physicist best known for conducting The Wu experiment
that bears her name. This experiment showed that the
conservation of parity was violated by a weak interaction
and it was possible to distinguish between a mirrored
variation of the world and the mirror image of the current
world. This discovery earned Wu the Wolf Prize in Physics
in 1978.
Varsha Khodiyar, PhD
Data Curation Manager, Springer Nature
varsha.khodiyar@nature.com
For more information on Research Data Support and
other data-related activities at Springer Nature:
Email: researchdata@springernature.com
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Slide acknowledgements:
Grace Baynes, Rebecca Grant, Mithu Lucraft,
Samuel Winthrop
Thank you