Posted: February 1st, 2012 | Author: Sven | Filed under: journals | Tags: Data Policies | 1 Comment »
Today, I want to introduce a new regular section here on edawax.de. Within the next weeks and months I’ m going to discuss some of the data availability policies we found during our investigations for our work package 2.
Even though you’ll find a lot of the information posted here in a condensed report by the end of spring, I thought it would be beneficial to our readers to get some preliminary information about the things we are currently doing. Of course I would be very happy to discuss the policies presented and some of my thoughts with you. So please feel free to comment or to send me an email.
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Posted: November 17th, 2011 | Author: Sven | Filed under: Projects | Tags: Data Centers, Data Policies, Knowlegde Exchange | Comments Off on “Surfboard for Riding the Wave” Report: Data availability policies of journals
Additionally to my blogpost where I introduced the “Surfboard for Riding the Wave” report, I want to point out a single part of the report for this post:
In Chapter 3.5, data availability policies of journals are discussed – a subject connected to the tasks of the EDaWax work package “Analysis of Data Policies”. Currently the EDaWax-Project is examining over 140 economic journals regarding their data availability policies.
Back to the “Surfboard”-Report: KE stated, that
“most peer-reviewed journals in science, technology and medicine have files where authors can add supplementary data related to the article, such as data sets, multimedia files, large tables, animations, and protocols.”
For example a study found out that the percentage of articles that contained supplementary materials increased from 7% in 2003 to 25% in 2009 – at least for the reviewed 28 high impact medical journals.
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