SourceData and BioStudies collaboration makes published data more accessible
Summary
- Making research data accessible and easy to find is essential for the progress of science
- EMBL-EBI’s BioStudies database contains data files linked to scientific papers
- A new partnership between BioStudies and SourceData is set to make published data from EMBO journals more accessible
Hinxton, December 9, 2018 – EMBL-EBI’s BioStudies database and SourceData from EMBO today announced a collaboration that is set to make published data from EMBO Press openly accessible and easy to find.
SourceData is an open platform that makes the data in research papers directly searchable, while EMBL-EBI’s BioStudies aggregates the data files linked to a specific publication or project. This pilot project means that all the manuscripts accepted by the EMBO Press journals, The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, EMBO Molecular Medicine and Molecular Systems Biology, will be processed through SourceData and the raw data files will be made available in BioStudies from January 2019.
“We are delighted to cooperate with EMBL-EBI and the BioStudies team to help scientists make their published data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable,” explains Thomas Lemberger, SourceData project lead. “This is referred to as FAIR data. SourceData provides one of the most complete implementations of the FAIR principles to date. By curating figures and their underlying data, we provide authors with a service that makes their data searchable, interconnected, accessible and downloadable as an integral part of journal publication.”
“BioStudies collates all the data from a study into a unified record, linking to key community data resources, storing related data files, and linking to publications, making the data easier to cite and find,” says Jo McEntyre, Literature Services Team Leader at EMBL-EBI. “The pipeline from SourceData provides a route for authors to deposit their data, cite it in their papers and benefit from a searchable, catalogued data archive. We are delighted to collaborate with SourceData on this leading integration with publishing workflows and we hope to see more of this kind of arrangement with journals in the future.”
Read the full press release on the EMBO website.
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BioStudies
The BioStudies database holds descriptions of biological studies, links to data from these studies in other databases at EMBL-EBI or outside, as well as data that do not fit in the structured archives at EMBL-EBI.
The database can accept a wide range of types of studies described via a simple format. It also enables manuscript authors to submit supplementary information and link to it from the publication.
SourceData
SourceData, an initiative by EMBO, is an openly accessible and easily applicable data discovery tool allowing biomedical scientists to share figures and the underlying source data in a way that is machine-readable.
SourceData provides a novel platform for researchers who wish to make their publications discoverable based on their data content, to find specific data, to test or generate new hypotheses, and to share and connect data.
