The publication of Data Descriptors is still not standard, but is growing and means that social science and humanities research can now be more discoverable in a multidisciplinary resource, enabling more research data to be discovered by more researchers and reused in more innovative ways.
Not just for the research community
Scientific Data welcomes data from all areas of science under an open access policy, which ensures articles are made freely available online and exposed to the widest possible audience. ReShare allows japan rcs data authors the option of publishing their data either as fully open data or as safeguarded data made available under the UK Data Service’s End User Licence. Therefore this collaboration with Scientific Data gives social science and humanities researchers the opportunity to increase the discoverability of their dataset via submission of a Data Descriptor, whilst maintaining UK Data Service’s level of safeguarding research subjects.
As part of the research process, it is likely researchers already have all the information needed to prepare a Data Descriptor. There is no need to move data from ReShare to publish. Scientific Data is an open access journal, please see our information on licensing and publication charges.