Concurrent 1E: The Continuum from Publishers to Data Repositories: Models to Support Seamless Scholarship
Scholars increasingly produce and reuse published data resources. A variety of services have sprung up to meet the demands of publishing research data that very deliberately blur the distinctions between research databases and scholarly journals. These range from broad disciplinary data repositories that focus on data associated with journal articles, through data journals launched by publishers that provide a mechanism for research datasets to undergo specialized peer review. Along with the diversity of innovations come the usual questions. Which of these models are here to stay and which are transitional experiments? Will these outlets continue to serve a niche market or will they grow in importance? This session will highlight some of the models for publishing research that have emerged, explore the reasons behind which ones have been adopted by different societies and publishers, and consider how these models are likely to coexist, compete and evolve over the next decade.
