User:Nic Weber/Notebook/DataOne Data Sharing and Citation Policy

Project Description
In this project I will be investigating data management policies for the existence (or absence of) requirements for researchers sharing and citing data. This will be accomplished in two phases. In phase I, I will collect data management policies from a number of journals, repositories and funding sources in order to quantitatively assess data sharing and citation requirements. In phase II, I will be trying to determine the impact of the policies based on correlations with Sarah and Valerie's data.

My Specific research questions include
 * 1) What are the data sharing and citation policies applicable to authors, from funders, journals, and repositories?
 * 2) How do these policies differ by discipline, journal, data type, data source?
 * 3) How has the spectrum of applicable policies changed over time? (Need more thought on how to track this)
 * 4) How do the applicable policies correlate with data sharing behavior
 * 5) How do the applicable policies correlate with citing data

Preliminary work
Funders: Search a sampling of articles in the most recent publication for each Dryad Partner journal for funding acknowledgments

Journals Sampled
 * American Society of Naturalists
 * European Society for Evolutionary Biology
 * Molecular Ecology
 * Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
 * Society for the Study of Evolution
 * Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
 * Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
 * Society of Systematic Biologists

I sampled four articles per journal for funding sources...This is the sample that I conducted, and decided there was enough to pursue funders as a datapoint (http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmL-EJ5-i7x7dFlqdWJXY1N2NkVKNmh2cGxxZi1Tenc&hl=en)

Repositories and Journals: Locate data sharing and data reuse/citation policies for the journals and common data repositories of these domains.

(Prelim work here:http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmL-EJ5-i7x7dFVxSElKYm5lZDg5SWlFWnpnY0RGMHc&hl=en )

Project Proper
I began by gathering metadata about the Journals, Repositories and Funders

And

Gathering the associated policies of sharing and reuse


 * Quick thought: it's interesting in the early stages to see the number of journals that require deposit of phylogenetic data in TreeBASE for publication. Although there doesn't seem to be funding mandates for this data, deposit in TreeBASE is widely supported.


 * Interesting finding: American Geophysical Union has a pretty thorough data citation policy