data, data everywhere 2010 annual meeting
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Data, Data EverywhereBut not a dataset to be found!
Toby GreenHead of Publishing, OECD
Credibility in Scholarly CommunicationsCrossRef Annual Meeting, London, November 16th 2010
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I take as my text today . . .
. . . which showed how readers find journal articles . . .
. . . scientifically.
The Survey found . . . You’ve already got in hand.
11 different ways are used
. . . and where do you start searching?
11 different starting points
Specialist bibliographic databases beat Google
>95% of the time
Discovery web
Discovery web
Therefore can we conclude that data objects get this much discoverability?
Equal opportunities for data!
Equal
rights
for data!
NOW!
What does it take to make data equal?
Dataset home page with DOI
Datasets in aggregation platforms
Alerts when new data is released
More data from us!
Links from statistician’s home page
Datasets listed on sites like arXiv?
MARC records for OPACs
Datasets in A&I services
Links from statistical societies
And
this is
a lot of
work!
ScienceDirect
OPACs
GreyStuff
Networked ebooks and ejournals
Periodicals
Books Working Papers
Datasets Data Tables
And this
was a
lot of
work
too!
Networked ebooks and ejournals
710 Datasets
10,081 Tables
And every single one with
equal bibliographic status to books, journals and working papers.
And because we’re using the same bibliographic systems . . .
Dataset home page with DOI
Datasets in IngentaConnect
Alerts when new data is released
More data from us!
Links from statistician’s home page
Datasets on Repec
MARC records for datasets
Datasets in EconLit
Links from statistical societies
And finally . . .
http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/
In case, you think we’ve wasted our time and readers still can’t find our data
Thank you
Inger S., Gardner T., How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Contenthttp://www.sic.ox14.com/A white paper describing the metadata schema used for OECD datasets and tables is available at:http://doi.org/abr
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