Are Scientific Data Repositories Coping with Research Data Publishing?

What is it about?

This works analyses the solutions offered by generalist scientific data repositories, i.e., repositories supporting the deposition of any type of research data, to the research data publishing challenge. The current practices promoted by such repositories are analysed with respect to eight key aspects of data publishing, i.e., dataset formatting, documentation, licensing, publication costs, validation, availability, discovery and access, and citation.

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Why is it important?

From this analysis it emerges that these repositories implement well consolidated practices and pragmatic solutions for literature repositories. These practices and solutions can not totally meet the needs of management and use of datasets resources, especially in a context where rapid technological changes continuously open new exploitation prospects. Possible approaches to overcome the current limitations are envisaged.