Data, Data EverywhereBut not a dataset to be found!

Toby GreenHead of Publishing, OECD

Credibility in Scholarly CommunicationsCrossRef Annual Meeting, London, November 16th 2010

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I take as my text today . . .

. . . which showed how readers find journal articles . . .

. . . scientifically.

The Survey found . . . You’ve already got in hand.

11 different ways are used

. . . and where do you start searching?

11 different starting points

Specialist bibliographic databases beat Google

>95% of the time

Discovery web

Discovery web

Therefore can we conclude that data objects get this much discoverability?

Equal opportunities for data!

Equal

rights

for data!

NOW!

What does it take to make data equal?

Dataset home page with DOI

Datasets in aggregation platforms

Alerts when new data is released

More data from us!

Links from statistician’s home page

Datasets listed on sites like arXiv?

MARC records for OPACs

Datasets in A&I services

Links from statistical societies

And

this is

a lot of

work!

ScienceDirect

OPACs

GreyStuff

Networked ebooks and ejournals

Periodicals

Books Working Papers

Datasets Data Tables

And this

was a

lot of

work

too!

Networked ebooks and ejournals

710 Datasets

10,081 Tables

And every single one with

equal bibliographic status to books, journals and working papers.

And because we’re using the same bibliographic systems . . .

Dataset home page with DOI

Datasets in IngentaConnect

Alerts when new data is released

More data from us!

Links from statistician’s home page

Datasets on Repec

MARC records for datasets

Datasets in EconLit

Links from statistical societies

And finally . . .

http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/

In case, you think we’ve wasted our time and readers still can’t find our data

Thank you

Inger S., Gardner T., How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Contenthttp://www.sic.ox14.com/A white paper describing the metadata schema used for OECD datasets and tables is available at:http://doi.org/abr

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