Last week I was proud to announce the endorsement of the “Enabling FAIR Data in the Earth, space and environment sciences” initiative by Nature and Scientific Data as convened by the American Geophysical Union in partnership with the Research Data Alliance and Earth Science Information Partners.

In this blog I discuss the benefits/truth of joining the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science. Taking part of the school both as a student and a helper allowed me to see how the school helped me and what it did for others.

Data availability statements (DASs) offer information within a journal article on where the data supporting the results of that article can be found and whether and how those can be accessed.

To help institutions and libraries understand if and how researchers are sharing data associated with their publications we’ve introduced a new service, Data availability reporting.

From the 2018 State of Open Data report

Springer Nature has launched a pilot program in which digital Open data badges are being awarded to articles to incentivize and reward open data sharing practices amongst our authors.

The Nature Research journals have taken further steps to promote transparency and reproducibility by making information on the availability of research data within our articles easier to access.

The Wellcome Trust is partnering with Springer Nature on a pilot to help researchers make their research datasets more findable and accessible.

Research Data Support is now available to all authors publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Let’s collaborate to make data “open by default”