Assessing the uptake of persistent identifiers by research infrastructure users
Autor: | Matthew S. Mayernik, K. E. Maull |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Computer and Information Sciences
Atmospheric Science Time Factors Research Facilities Knowledge management Inertia 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Climate Change Data management Science Information Dissemination Datasets as Topic Documentation Research and Analysis Methods 01 natural sciences Computer Software Motion Citation analysis Data Management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Publishing Climatology Multidisciplinary Computers business.industry Physics 05 social sciences Classical Mechanics Research Assessment Supercomputers Identifier Physical Sciences Earth Sciences Medicine 0509 other social sciences Research Laboratories 050904 information & library sciences business Citation Software Research Article |
Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 4, p e0175418 (2017) PLoS ONE |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Popis: | Significant progress has been made in the past few years in the development of recommendations, policies, and procedures for creating and promoting citations to data sets, software, and other research infrastructures like computing facilities. Open questions remain, however, about the extent to which referencing practices of authors of scholarly publications are changing in ways desired by these initiatives. This paper uses four focused case studies to evaluate whether research infrastructures are being increasingly identified and referenced in the research literature via persistent citable identifiers. The findings of the case studies show that references to such resources are increasing, but that the patterns of these increases are variable. In addition, the study suggests that citation practices for data sets may change more slowly than citation practices for software and research facilities, due to the inertia of existing practices for referencing the use of data. Similarly, existing practices for acknowledging computing support may slow the adoption of formal citations for computing resources. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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