Guidelines on Recommending Data Repositories as Partners in Publishing Research Data

This document summarises guidelines produced by the UK Jisc-funded PREPARDE data publication project on the key issues of repository accreditation. It aims to lay out the principles and the requirements for data repositories intent on providing a dataset as part of the research record and as part of a research publication. The data publication requirements that repository accreditation may support are rapidly changing, hence this paper is intended as a provocation for further discussion and development in the future. Received 01 October 2013 | Accepted 26 February 2014 Correspondence should be addressed to Sarah Callaghan, British Atmospheric Data Centre, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX. Email: [email protected] An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 9 International Digital Curation Conference. The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. The IJDC is published by the University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. ISSN: 1746-8256. URL: http://www.ijdc.net/ Copyright rests with the authors. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution (UK) Licence, version 2.0. For details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ International Journal of Digital Curation 2014, Vol. 9, Iss. 1, 152–163 152 http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.309 DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.309 doi:10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.309 Callaghan et al. | 153