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
• Guidelines for Finnish research institutes: Laine, H (ed.) 2018 Tracing Data - Data Citation Roadmap for Finland. Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Committee for Research Data. URN: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201804106446
• 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
• Data citation principles. Data Citation Synthesis Group: Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles. Martone M. (ed.) San Diego CA: FORCE11; 2014
• Data citation of evolving data. Rev Oct 2015, RDA
• CRediT - Contributor Roles Taxonomy. CASRAI:High-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. 

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.

• the Digital Preservation Handbook
• OpenAIRE What is a persistent identifier
• ORCID Researcher Identifier