Research Data Guide

Research data should be cited for the same reasons as citing  to journal articles and other types of publications require citations. Purpose of citing data is to acknowledge the original producer of the data and to help other researchers find the datasets otherwise enable reuse and verification of data, and allow the impact of data to be tracked.

Remember in-text-citations and references in bibliography!

General formats for data citation. Examples:

• Creator (Publication Year): Title. Publisher. Permanent identifier.
• Creator (Publication Year): Title. Version. Publisher.  Resource Type. Identifier.
• with permanent identifier: Irino, T; Tada, R (2009): Chemical and mineral compositions of sediments from ODP Site 127‐797. Geological Institute, University of Tokyo http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.726855

Guidelines about persistent identifiers and citing

• Recommendation on the use of persistent identifiers (PID) for research datasets at the University of Oulu
• Finnish Social Science Data Archive: A lot of examples about citing research data
• The use of Persistent Identifiers for Research Datasets : Recommendation by the Finnish Scientific Community for Open Research. Parland-von-Essen, Jessica et al (2019)
• How to cite datasets and link to publications (DCC).
• DataCite.org recommendations
• NISO RP-36-2020, JATS4R Data Citations, Version 2.0: Best practices for tagging citations to datasets in a reference list
  • "As per the JATS4R recommendation on Data availability statements, there are four options for capturing references to data. However, including the references within the main <ref-list> for the article is recommended by the Force11 Publishers Early Adopters Expert Group, and only those references are recognised by Google Scholar. "

Pierce, H.; Dev, A.; Statham,E.; Bierer, B. (2019) Credit data generators for data reuse. Nature 4 June 2019, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01715-4

researchdata@oulu.fi

The Finnish Research Information Hub service portal (Tutkimustietovaranto)  research.fi  is open now!

Information Hub links researchers and organizations with all research outputs:

• Publications: data source Virta publication service
• Research data: data sources e.g. Finnish FAIRdata services
• Infrastructures: data source Virta publication service
• Fundings decisions
• Other activities

ORCID Researcher ID  will play a major role in connecting all research outputs with researcher.  Updating ORCID account and linking it to the information systems of UOulu is an important action for a researcher to do.

• PID Services Registry
• Frey PID Graph
• the Digital Preservation Handbook
• OpenAIRE What is a persistent identifier
• ORCID Researcher Identifier