Citing Datasets

Research: search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to

establish facts.

And to establish facts, one needs Data.

Nearly 18,000 journals600 trade publications350 book series 3,6 million conference papers38 million records from 199619 million pre-1996 recordsResults from 435 million scientific web pages 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices

Finding Research

From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

And to establish facts, one needs Data.

Source: crossref.org on 27th November 2009

. . . to scholarly articles and book chapters . . .

Cross-linking Research

And to establish facts, one needs Data.

Conclusion: You can stand on the shoulders of giants . . .

. . . but it seems you do so without data.

Source: OECD

Chart from The Economist

Here’s Why

Source: Acemoglu et al (2001), based on Curtin, 1989, Philip D. Curtin, Death by migration: Europe’s encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, New York

(1989).Curtin 1989 and other sources.

Tertiary school enrollment: School enrollment, tertiary (% of gross).

Source: Barro and Lee (2000) and their databases.

Taken from an appendix to an article published in Elsevier’s World Development

. . . and again why . . .

And Librarians,

How many are cataloguing datasets in their OPACs?

Datasets:Scholarly Publishing’s Lost Sheep?

By creating metadata for: Datasets

In the same industry standard formats as . . .Book chapters

andJournal articles

Authors will be able to cite . . .

Publishers will be able to link . . .

Discovery systems will be able to find . . .

Librarians will be able to catalogue . .

.

Datasets alongside published outputs . . .

. . . to the benefit of Everyone

And here's how . . . . . . it can be done

OECD:• is working with others on

Publishing Standards for Datasets

• is working with CrossRef on citation standards for dynamic objects

• Will be pushing metadata for datasets to Scopus, Google Scholar et al

You can learn more in this White PaperGreen. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tableshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1787/603233448430

Thank you

You can learn more in this White PaperGreen. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tableshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1787/603233448430

Toby GreenHead of Publishing, OECDtoby.green@oecd.org

A proposed example of a dataset using standard bibliographic and citation metadata.

Bibliography of Books that

cite this database

Citation tool compatible with EndNotes et al

Dataset title with ISSN,

DOI (& MARC) record