Compilation of Recommendations

Details

Short Title

Rec. 20: Deposit in Trusted Digital Repositories

Source Documnent

Turning FAIR into reality: Final report and action plan from the European Commission expert group on FAIR data

Source Document Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.2777/1524

Publishing Organisation

European Commision

Date of Publication

2018-11-26

Topic

Policy, Capacity building/ incentivisation, Discovery/ indexing/ search

Addressed Stakeholders

publishers, research community, coordination fora, policy makers, institutions, data service providers

Keywords

repositories, data deposit

Text

Research data should be made available by means of Trusted Digital Repositories, and where possible in those with a mission and expertise to support a specific discipline or interdisciplinary research community. Action 20.1: Policy should require data deposit in certified repositories and specify support mechanisms (e.g. incentives, structural funding and/or funding for deposit fees, and training) to enable compliance. Action 20.2: Mechanisms need to be established to support research communities to determine the optimal data repositories and services for a given discipline or data type. Action 20.3: Concrete steps need to be taken to ensure the development of domain repositories and data services for interdisciplinary research communities so the needs of all researchers are covered. Action 20.4: Outreach is required via scholarly societies, scientific unions and domain conferences so researchers in each field are aware of the relevant disciplinary repositories.