DATA PUBLICATION IN THE OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVE

Authors

Jens Klump, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
Roland Bertelmann, Library of the Wissenschaftspark “Albert Einstein”
Jan Brase, University of Hannover
Michael Diepenbroek, World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Heinke Höck, German National Library of Science and Technology
Michael Lautenschlager, German National Library of Science and Technology
Uwe Schindler, World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Irina Sens, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
Joachim Wächter, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

6-15-2006

Citation

Data Science Journal (2006) 5: 79-83 doi: 10.2481/dsj.5.79

Comments

License: CC BY 3.0

Abstract

The ‘Berlin Declaration’ was published in 2003 as a guideline to policy makers to promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base. Because knowledge is derived from data, the principles of the ‘Berlin Declaration’ should apply to data as well. Today, access to scientific data is hampered by structural deficits in the publication process. Data publication needs to offer authors an incentive to publish data through long-term repositories. Data publication also requires an adequate licence model that protects the intellectual property rights of the author while allowing further use of the data by the scientific community.