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Measuring Major Player’s Policies
Last week I dove head first into extracting information about journal policies on sharing and citing data. I used the Reuters Citation Reports of 2008 + 2009 to compile all the journals with calculated impact factor in the categories ‘Ecology’ and ‘Evolutionary Biology I attempted to quantify these policies by creating fields with a binary […]
Poll Time
(In Case you have trouble viewing the Poll, plain text is below…Please vote or respond in the Comments Section) As a researcher, what prevents you from citing data according to best practices? -I don’t reuse data -I don’t know best practices for citing data -I definitely cite data according to best practices -I do cite […]
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Summer tapestry of data citation research
June 17, 2010
by Heather Piwowar
Properly attributing the use and reuse of research data is important. We know it is important. We — scientists and social scientists and information scientists — have written editorials and blogs and policies and research papers calling for consistent and comprehensive data reuse attribution. We’ve developed, and continue to develop, standards to make data citation […]
Recycling in the data world
June 16, 2010
by scootypuffrider
Unlike Nic, I don’t have an excitement of introducing myself or going first. Fortunately, I get to post on Wednesday, the day when a good deal of us have shaken off the early lethargy of Monday and Tuesday. Like Sarah, I had an interesting time explaining to colleagues (as well as friends, families and random […]
Anecdotal Perceptions of DataSharing
Maybe I come from an arcane science, but as I explained this internship to my stream ecologist peers at a conference last week they responded with varying degrees of “huh?” Ok, I understand this project is well outside the scope of insects and flow dynamics, but most of my scientific peers have an admittedly poor […]
Posted in: Data Sharing
I always go first
I have always enjoyed going first when it comes to introductions; be it a new class, social outings or your everyday elevator ride. It has nothing to do with being an extrovert or even being a genuinely outgoing person, but because I’m really much more interested in other people and the operations of their networks […]
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June 21, 2010
by Nic
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