The document discusses the role of data journals in incentivizing open scholarship. It notes that scientific validation, dissemination, and further development form the social contract of science. However, publishers, researchers, and libraries have at times engaged in "scientific malpractice" that undermines this social contract. Data journals and metajournals have been proposed as one way to incentivize open data practices and remedy issues caused by scientific malpractice. Specifically, data papers allow data to be cited similarly to bibliographic citations, which researchers, universities, and research assessment frameworks may better recognize and reward compared to other data sharing methods.

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Brian Hole
The Now and Future of Data Publishing, Oxford, 22 May 2013
The data journal:
incentivizing open scholarship
or ‘a convenient fiction’?

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The Social Contract
of Science
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Publishers
• Researchers
• Libraries, repositories…

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Metajournals as incentives

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Why data papers?
Amsterdam manifesto:
4. A data citation in a publication should resemble
a bibliographic citation and be located in the
publication’s reference list.
• Data can (and should) be cited using DataCite DOIs
in articles, but this is not enough.
• Researchers understand the value of papers
• University departments and the REF understand
papers
• Researchers know where to put paper refs, no
need for extra guidelines
• Publishers routinely strip out anything else
• Familiar impact metrics can be collected