Royal Society wants datasets to be on a par with papers in REF.

The article raises the argument from the Royal Society that high quality and publicly accessible datasets should be given as much credit as standard publications in the research excellence framework (REF). In its report "Science as an Open Enterprise: Open Data for Open Science," the Royal Society r...

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Publicado en:Times Higher Education no. 2055; p. 7
Autor principal: Jump, Paul
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: TSL Education Limited 6/21/2012
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Sumario:The article raises the argument from the Royal Society that high quality and publicly accessible datasets should be given as much credit as standard publications in the research excellence framework (REF). In its report "Science as an Open Enterprise: Open Data for Open Science," the Royal Society recognizes the skill and creativity required to acquire data and it argues for motivation for data release. Professor Geoffrey Boulton cites the reason behind the risk of datasets losing out to REFs.