Publishing Data

Publishing data includes sharing information about research datasets with Research Data Australia or discipline-specific portals, as well as making collections available to other researchers, either on an individual basis or through a formal publication process.

The ANDS Guides listed below provide information about ANDS services that support these processes. For help with ANDS services, please email services@ands.org.au

Sharing information about research datasets
Research Data Australia	Using Research Data Australia to find research datasets produced by or relevant to Australian researchers
Publish My Data	Explains how researchers can share information about their own research datasets with Research Data Australia
Register My Data	Explains how institutions can share information about datasets created by their researchers with Research Data Australia
The Data Curation Continuum	Explains how effective sharing and re-use of research datasets is built upon end-to-end data management processes
The Data Publishing Continuum	Developed by TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) to represent different approaches to data publishing and their impacts
Data publishing principles	The six principles of data publishing as defined by the Nature Publishing Group
Data journals	Provides an overview of this evolving publishing paradigm for research data
Overview to providing collection descriptions	Technical overview of the processes of generating collection descriptions and providing them to Research Data Australia

More help
Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS)	Background information about the XML schema used to structure information shared with Research Data Australia
Content Providers Guide	Detailed description of information that can be shared with Research Data Australia
Defining a Collection	Help with deciding how to group datasets for better discovery
What Makes a Useful Collection Record?	Explains how information about collections shared with Research Data Australia can be used by researchers

Sharing research datasets
Copyright
Copyright and Data	Explains how copyright applies to research datasets
Creative Commons and Data	Describes the use of open content licensing for research datasets
Identifying datasets
Identify My Data	Guide to obtaining unique identifiers for research datasets or other resources
Persistent Identifiers	Introduction to persistent identifiers and how they work
Persistent Identifiers (working level)	Detailed guide to using persistent identifiers with research datasets
Persistent Identifiers (expert level)	A technical infrastructure perspective on persistent identifiers
Digital Object Identifiers	Explains the advantages of using DOIs for research datasets
Citing datasets
Data Citation	Introduction to citing research datasets in publications