BMJ and Data Sharing Claire Bower, Digital Communications

BMJ and Data Sharing I will try to answer three questions… 1.What is data sharing? 2.Why is it important? 3.How can publishers help?

What is data sharing? Science has changed Different kinds of modern research output Data Multimedia Code

What is data sharing? Definition “Data sharing is the practice of making data used for scholarly research available to other investigators”

"Publishing articles without making the data available is scientific malpractice" Professor Geoffrey Boulton, The Royal Society

Why is data sharing important? Funder perspective Faster progress in improving health Higher quality science Better value for money

Why is data sharing important? Researcher perspective Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB. Sharing detailed research data associated with increased citation rate. PLoS ONE. 2007;2:e308. doi: /journal.pone

How can publishers help? BMJ and data sharing 2012 BMJ publishes special issue on hidden clinical trial data and some authors deposit data in Dryad 2009 BMJ implements data sharing statements on all research papers 2011 BMJ Open launches and is first medical journal to integrate its submission process with the Dryad digital repository 2013 BMJ Open data campaign launches The BMJ no longer publishes any trial of drugs or devices where the authors do not commit to making the relevant anoymised patient level data available

How can publishers help? Dryad Gives each upload a DOI so citable and discoverable Fits into the manuscript submission workflow of partner journals Focuses on data files associated with published articles Works with CLOCKSS to ensure indefinite access Offers option to make data securely available during peer review Currently free but introducing $70 upload fee in September

How can publishers help? Dryad Editorial process Author selects option during manuscript submission if they wish to upload data

How can publishers help? Dryad Editorial process BMJ sends to author with instructions and direct upload link for Dryad (who are copied in)

How can publishers help? Dryad Editorial process Author uploads data (hopefully)

Editorial process Provisional DOI sent by Dryad to author and BMJ How can publishers help? Dryad

How can publishers help? Dryad Editorial process BMJ adds Dryad DOI to data sharing statement

How can publishers help? Dryad Editorial process BMJ confirms acceptance with Dryad via and record goes live

How can publishers help? FigShare

How can publishers help? Similar to Dryad in some ways… Gives each upload a DOI so citable and discoverable Fits into the manuscript submission workflow of journal Works with CLOCKSS to ensure indefinite access

How can publishers help? …different in others Offers embeddable widgets within article view Publishes negative results and otherwise unpublished data Provides author profiles and links all research output together Open API is accessible by everybody Free private uploads up to 1GB

Initiatives such as data cite, a registry assigning unique digital object identifiers (doi's) research data, help scientists to make their data citable, traceable and findable, so that research data, as well as publications based on those data, form part of a researcher's scientific output

"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data" - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

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