Research Data Guide

• Altmetric.com
  • Includes "data sets" as one type of research output
  • As of 28.5.2020 Altmetric.com has mentions of 31378 datasets (out of followed 35979 datasets)
• Clarivate Analytics's Data Citation Index
  • indexes over 380 data repositories
  • ! UOulu does not have subscription to DCI

• Mendeley

• The Finnish Research Information Hub service portal (Tutkimustietovaranto)  research.fi  is open now ! Information Hub links researchers and organizations with all research outputs: publications, research data, research infrastructures, funding decisions and other activities

• Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess and reuse.
• DataCite's mission is to be the world's leading provider of persistent identifiers for research. Through the portfolio of services, Datacite provides the means to create, find, cite, connect, and use research.
• Read about Crossref vs Datacite
• How do DataCite and Crossfef support research data sharing? Presentation by Britta Dreyer June 27, 2018
• OpenAire
• Scholix,  Scholarly Link Exchange: An initiative is to establish a high level interoperability framework for exchanging information about the links between scholarly literature and data.  Scholix aims to enable an open information ecosystem to understand systematically what data underpins literature and what literature references data.

Make data FAIR

• Deposit (meta)data in a trustworthy repository
• Provide appropriate metadata
• Obtain a permanent identifier
• Enable open access: "As open as possible, as closed as necessary"
• Licence the data

Cite to datasets. Remember in-text-citations and references in bibliography! Read more e.g.

• Piwowar, H.A., Day, R.S., Fridsma, D.B. Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate (2007) PLoS ONE, 2 (3), art. no. e308
• Theory and practice of data citation by Gianmaria Silvello (2017) in JASIST 

Connect with ORCID

• Keep your ORCID account updated and published
• Add information about your datasets in your ORCID account

Publish a data article

• data article definition by Elsevier 
• Data in Brief - a data journal by Elsevier
• explore the directory of data journals published by the  Finnish Committee for Research Data 

Get attention - views, mentions, downloads -  in social media

       Add information about your datasets 

• in social media (Twitter, blogs etc). 
• in academic social networking tools like Mendeley, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate
• in  Google Scholar 

      Always use permanent identifier and permanent link when referring to your research data.

      More in http://libguides.oulu.fi/researchvisibility

researchdata@oulu.fi

• Alex Ball, Monica Duke (2015). ‘How to Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics’. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: https://www.dcc.ac.uk/guidance/how-guides/track-data-impact-metrics
• Cousijn, H., Feeney, P., Lowenberg, D., Presani, E. and Simons, N., 2019. Bringing Citations and Usage Metrics Together to Make Data Count. Data Science Journal, 18(1), p.9. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-009
• Haak, Wouter (2019) 4 principles for unlocking the full potential of research data. Elsevier

• About post publication peer review of RD in Earth System Science Data, The Data Publishing Journal