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
- 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
- Government Information Licensing Framework
- A discussion paper about possible benefits of the GILF for the Australian Research Data Commons.
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
