A recent article, Motivating Online Publication of Data, in BioScience identifies multiple benefits for scientific authors when they publish data online. Among them are: • additional publications • greater citation rate • invitations to collaborate Author Mark Costello is a marine biologist at the University of Auckland, and has written widely on ocean biodiversity informatics. [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Dryad Consortium Management Board: First meeting May 2009
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The first meeting of the Dryad Consortium Management Board was held May 21-22, 2009 at NESCent in Durham, NC. Representatives from over a dozen journals met to launch and plan for the future of the consortium. Topics discussed included board governance, repository sustainability, the Joint Data Archiving Policy, intellectual property, repository policy, interactions with journals [...]
