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  • Publishing Interim Research Products ### Hao Ye ### Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida ### (updated: 2022-07-19)
  • Motivations Why should you care about this topic? Academic systems evaluate people
    • I dislike this, but that doesn’t make it less true Success requires self-advocacy
    • NOT the same as boasting
    • make it easy for other people to find and learn about your work
  • Learning Outcomes
    • understand the FAIR principles as they relate to scientific data management
    • explain the benefits of ORCID and Google Scholar profiles
    • define DOI, its attributes, and uses
    • identify tools and platforms for publishing interim research products
  • Costs
    • to my knowledge, all of the tools introduced here are free
      • they may have paid tiers with additional features
      • funding sources often include large non-profits, funding agencies, etc.
    • DO be aware that some platforms are run by for-profit publishing companies that are monetizing data on academics

FAIR

  • FAIR
    • Guidelines for Scientific Data (but which apply more generally)
      • Findable
      • Accessible
      • Interoperable
      • Reusable
  • Findable
    • Can humans and machines find the data?
      • use metadata that accurately describes the content
      • use metadata that helps people find the content
  • Metadata [def] data that describes or gives information about other data
    • hashtag identifies content as related to R
  • Accessible
    • there should be minimal barriers to access the data
      • e.g. no proprietary interfaces or software required
      • “available upon (reasonable) request” is insufficient!
    • use established methods to authenticate access to protected or private data
  • Interoperable
  • Reusable
    • add descriptions to help researchers identify whether it is suitable for their usage
    • use a legal license that enables re-use
      • e.g. CC-BY or CC-0
      • don’t use a code license, e.g. MIT
    • include attribution and a description of how to cite the data
  • Summary

Personal Profiles

  • Your Academic Identity
  • is it FAIR?
    • Findable
    • Accessible
    • Interoperable
    • Reusable
  • ORCID
    • https://orcid.org/
    • Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier
    • unique ID that stays with you, regardless of changes in name, email, institution
    • common way to login to journals and identify yourself on publications
  • Google Scholar
    • https://scholar.google.com/
    • IMO, does the best job of automatically identifying your papers
    • allows you to correct errors in the records for your works
    • citation statistics
      • these are imperfect, but LOTS of people care and this makes it easy for them to check
  • LinkedIn
    • https://www.linkedin.com/
    • a must if you are considering a position in industry
    • use the right buzzwords for your skills
      • find people with jobs that you aspire to, and see what buzzwords they use
  • Other
    • ask around to see what sites are common in your field
      • not just what people use, but what they use to look up or find applicants
    • consider a personal website:
      • present more detailed information NOT found in other sites
      • many free and nice options (custom domains are about $10/year)
  • DOI
  • DOI = Digital Object Identifier
    • format
      • 10.NNNN/{suffix}
      • NNNN identifies the registrant
      • {suffix} identifies the object
      • e.g. 10.5281/zenodo.3892184
  • DOI Properties
    • DOIs are permanent
      • the object and metadata record are archived
    • unambiguous
      • each DOI links to a unique object, and will only ever link to that object
  • Why is this Important? A given DOI always point to the same object.
    • (some exceptions for updating the metadata or deleting the object) The scholarly record needs permanence.
    • someone else needs to be able to look up your sources
    • DOIs fit this role Most journals issue a DOI for each article.
  • Get DOIs for Your Work
    • If you have interim products, e.g.
      • code
      • datasets
      • protocols
      • images/video
    • A DOI makes that work citable!
      • for fellowship/grant/job applications

Publishing Platforms

  • Places that issue DOIs
    • preprint servers
    • data repositories
    • general-purpose repositories
    • tooling-specific repositories
  • Preprints
    • papers, before peer-review and journal formatting
    • very common in math & physics, catching on elsewhere why?
    • share your work more quickly
      • not delayed until peer review
    • (sometimes) get feedback
  • Preprint servers
  • Data Repositories
  • Data Repositories Additional Notes
  • General Purpose Repositories
    • Open Science Framework
      • https://osf.io/
      • files can be uploaded or linked through github, dropbox, google drive, etc.
      • projects can be embedded within other projects
      • can issue DOIs for public projects
  • Tooling-Specific For specific (common) applications:

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