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Report on Integration of Data and Publications Grant Agreement no.: 261530
Graph19 from PARSE.Insight survey: What file formats does your journal accept ?, N=134
Publishers
As was shown in the introductory chapter (Chapter 1) of this report, we know that more
than half of the researchers surveyed for PARSE.Insight would like to submit their data
together with their manuscript to journals and publishers. This unveils a trend of likely
growth in the submission of supplementary data files, because the present percentage
who do so is below 20 % at the moment. Publishers confirm this growth trend as will
become clear from several examples provided in this chapter.
The instructions that these researchers find for most of the journals are fairly
straightforward. This is the general instruction to authors from a large publisher with
more than 2000 journals (ic Springer, bold text by us) 30 :
accepts electronic supplementary material (animations, movies,
audio, large original data, etc.) which will be published in the online version along
with the article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the article,
as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.
30 Springer author instructions, see
http://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines?SGWID=0-40162-12-339499-0
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