Integration of Data and Publications - Alliance for Permanent Access

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institutions can provide adequate storage capacity, let alone an infrastructure
supporting description, persistent identification, search and retrieval of data, this task
can be fulfilled by disciplinary data services.
Pangaea has developed and offers a range of archiving and publishing services. For
example, it acts as publishing service and long term archive for the World Data Center
for Marine Environmental Sciences. Pangaea aims at firmly establishing the concept of
data publishing in the Marine Environmental Community within the next couple of
years. Linking data to journal articles is an important part in this process and it
happens in a bi-directional way: articles link to the data in Pangaea, and the Pangaea
data point and link to the articles that use the data. Pangaea is already a designated
archive for the Earth Science journals of Elsevier (see chapter 4) and is also the ‘home’ of
the new data journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD).
The people responsible for Pangaea consider it the most important achievement of
Pangaea that it has established collaborations with science publishers for cross
referencing of science data and articles. DataCite DOIs are used for persistent
identification of datasets. The Pangaea data publication process follows established
publication processes with submission including a metadescription, formatting rules,
abstract, archiving with lead time for proof-read, defining a citation, registration and
final publication. Search and retrieval of the data sets via library catalogues is ensured
through cooperation with the German National Library of Science and Technology
4.5. Gaps and dilemmas
The findings of the PARSE.Insight project, the initiatives presented in this chapter, and
the sheer number of workshops, conferences and publications related to data
management, data sharing, (open) access to data suggest that the need for action has
been recognised in the library and data centres communities alike. They are actively
involved in developing persistent identifier systems for research data, data citation
standards, and solutions for data description, documentation and retrieval, as well as in
data curation and preservation.
Availability
In terms of available infrastructure, plenty of solutions and possibilities are already
available for the often mentioned problem of making research data available. There are
vast possibilities for researchers to make their data available via institutional or
disciplinary repositories, and increasingly together with publications. A challenge is that
not all researchers are aware of the services available to them. Another challenge may
be that the multitude of possibilities may create a fragmented landscape. Here,
especially research libraries as information suppliers have an important role to play:
They should engage with researchers to raise awareness for good data management
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