Research Data Management
Collection of requirements from publishers for storing data into repositories
Table 1: Requirements/recommendations from 10 publishers for storing data into repositories with an appropriate license.*
Journal | Discipline-specific repository | Generalist repository | License | Unstructured/big-data data |
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Bioinformatics1 | Refer to FAIRsharing.org or re3data.org | Dryad figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Code Ocean | Not defined | Yes. Author needs to define how data will be accessible. |
Biophysical Journal2 | Recommendations HERE | Zenodo + Github recommended for software | Not mentioned | Not mentioned |
Cell group3 (Cell, Cell Reports,...) |
Online repository that meets the criteria for digital longevity, implementation of FAIR standards, and community support as articulated by FAIRsharing.org and collaborators. | Dryad figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Mendeley Data, ScienceDB | CC BY-NC 4.0, CC BY 4.0, or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Not mentioned |
EMBO4 | Counsel the FAIRsharing. | Dryad figshare, Zenodo, Biostudies | CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Not mentioned |
F10005 | GenBank and Protein Data Bank, respectively. Any appropriate public repository, such as Addgene, American Type Culture Collection, Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center... | Dryad figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Code Ocean, ScienceDB, OSF, Biostudies | Data: CC0 license. Software and source code: OSI-approved license. | Include all necessary information required for a reader or reviewer to access the data alongside a description of this process. |
Gigascience6 | Find repositories by subject area and data type on the re3data.org, FAIRsharing and ELIXIR's Core Data Resources. | GigaDB, Dryad figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, Qualitative Data Repository, Ag Data Commons, Synaps, Software Heritage, Docubricks, National and Institutional repository(s) | Data: CC0, Software: OSI-approved license; Hardware: CC0, GPL and other copyleft licenses | GigaDB |
NAR7 | Listed HERE. | Dryad, Zenodo | Not mentioned | Not mentioned |
Nature group8 (Ncomms, Nature, Genome Biology, ...) | Listed HERE. | Dryad figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, OSF, ScienceDB | Not mentioned | Not mentioned |
PLOS Comp Biology9 | Listed HERE. | Dryad figshare, Dataverse, Zenodo, OSF, NDEx, Kaggle | Not more restrictive than the CC BY license | BioStudies, CSIRO Portal, DANS, GigaDB, SimTK, Swedish National Data Service |
PNAS10 | See the DataCite Repository Finder to search for appropriate repositories | Dryad figshare, OSF | CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY. | When no public repository exists, authors must provide the data as SI or, if this is not possible, on the author's institutional website. |
Science11 | Listed HERE. | Dryad, Dataverse, Zenodo, Code Ocean | CC BY-NC and CC BY (required if funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, COAF, UKRI council, or a cOAlition S member. |
*Research data should be stored into discipline-specific, community-recognized repository with an appropriate license. If such repository does not exist, one should deposit data into a generalist repository.
SOURCES:
1. Research Data Policy. Oxford Academics. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/authors/preparing_your_manuscript/research-data-policy#choosing
2. Guidelines for the Reproducibility of Biophysics Research (2017). Biophysical Journal. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/reproducibility-guidelines.pdf
3. Information for authors. Cell. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.cell.com/cell/authors
4. Author Guidelines. The EMBO Journal. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.embopress.org/page/journal/14602075/authorguide#availabilityofpublishedmaterial
5. Data Guidelines. F1000. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://f1000research.com/for-authors/data-guidelines#generaldata
6. Editorial Policies & Reporting Standards. GigaScience. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/editorial_policies_and_reporting_standards
7. Data Deposition and Standardization. Nucleic Acids Research. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://academic.oup.com/nar/pages/data_deposition_and_standardization#table_202
8. Data Repository Guidance. Scientific Data. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories
9. Recommended Repositories. PLOS Computational Biology. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/s/recommended-repositories
10. Editorial and Journal Policies. PNAS. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.pnas.org/author-center/editorial-and-journal-policies#materials-and-data-availability
11. Science Journals: editorial policies. Science. Accessed on the 20th April 2022 from https://www.science.org/content/page/science-journals-editorial-policies#data-and-code-deposition
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Last update: 20.4.2022.