We believe that data should be open, accessible and reusable. Open access to knowledge (both datasets and research papers) inherently facilitates interdisciplinary research and pushes the boundaries of discovery.
Many researchers are motivated to share their data but are often face with challenges in doing so. As a publisher we want to advance discovery and drive the development of open research by supporting data sharing and accessibility.
Springer Nature published a white paper Practical challenges for researchers in data sharing on 21 March 2018.
Based one of the largest surveys of researchers about research data, this report finds widespread data sharing associated with published works and a desire from researchers that their data are discoverable.
The volume of respondents to the survey (over 7,700 researchers responded) enables this report to explore data sharing behaviours and challenges from regional, subject and seniority perspectives.
We work with the scientific community in a variety of ways to improve data management and publication:
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Springer Nature’s flagship open data journal, Scientific Data, offers authors the opportunity to describe and share their research data with a wide audience. Our Research Data Support Helpdesk helps authors and editors find out how best to deal with their data and understand funder and institute mandates. With journal-level Research Data Policies, we ensure that the data at the heart of scholarly research are appropriately archived and, where possible, widely accessible.
BMC Research Notes publishes dark data - single observations, short null results, orphan data and confirmatory results, among others. We believe this data can contribute to developments in the scientific field, so we launched BMC Research Notes to give it a home. The ‘data note’ article type offers authors a peer-reviewed, citeable summary of their data.
