[Taxacom] motivating data publication

[Brian O'Meara]

There's also Nature Preceedings <http://precedings.nature.com/site/ 
help>. From their description: "It is a place for researchers to  
share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers,  
technical papers, supplementary findings, and non-peer-reviewed  
manuscripts. It provides a rapid way to share preliminary findings,  
disseminate emerging results, solicit community feedback, and claim  
priority over discoveries. It also makes such material easy to  
archive, share and cite."

It is NOT peer-reviewed (just basic checks are done to make sure what  
is being posted is science), but it is free for authors, free for  
readers, and provides a DOI (and peers can attach public comments on  
the documents). I've used it happily for publishing a dissertation  
(<http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.2261.1>) and a poster (<http:// 
dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.2126.1>) but not for natural history  
observations. I suspect that such observations, in manuscript form,  
would be published by them, but I do not know this with certainty. I  
don't think it's something people browse for new results, but it at  
least would allow people making observations to have something  
citable, and its documents do appear in search engines.

Brian



On May 20, 2009, at 7:56 AM, Dave Roberts wrote:

> Dear Doug & taxacomers all,
>
> the Scratchpad project (http://scratchpads.eu) is, at its heart, a
> data publishing environment.  You can indeed get an authorship
> citation from the panels page, but not a DOI, but you do get a stable
> url for the page as viewed.  We are working towards an API that will
> make the data recoverable by aggregation tools.
>
> Some folks have used a Scratchpad to create a journal (e.g. http:// 
> e-m-b.org
> ).
>
> The only issue is whether there is a site to which your data can be
> sensibly attached.  There is a Scratchpads devoted to bees (http:// 
> globalbees.editwebrevisions.info
> ) which is devoted to building a global checklist, but could also
> accommodate additional information if the site owner agreed.
>
> And they're free.
>
> Cheers,  Dave
> --
> On 19 May 2009, at 18:49, Doug Yanega wrote:
>
>> By coincidence, someone over on the entomo-l listserv just asked -
>> essentially - about the merits of publishing a very tiny data set (in
>> his case, a description of a single bee nest, presumably for a
>> species whose nests are presently undescribed). This ties in
>> logically with the topic of Mark's paper (allow me to paraphrase my
>> pertinent comments from that other listserv):
>>
>> What would be nice to know is whether there is any journal (print or
>> electronic) that publishes natural history data that has no page
>> charges and handles submissions and reviews electronically and with
>> fast turnaround; having a streamlined venue for publication of such
>> data could potentially be a major boost to the field (assuming, of
>> course, that people are getting trustworthy expert species
>> identifications), since not many potential contributors are going to
>> want to incur significant expense to publish a two- or three-page
>> note.
>> [chomp]
>
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Brian O'Meara
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