COPDESS (the
Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences) connects Earth and space science publishers and data
facilities to help translate the aspirations of open, available, and
useful data from policy into practice.
The session will be in two parts: The first part will be a report back of the nearly finalised Research Data Alliance (RDA) Repo2Pub Working Group (
Coordinating Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Data Preservation and Scholarly Publication Processes Working Group), which in the last 12 months has conducted a series of interviews with 8 publishers and 8 repositories to try to analyse where the pain points are in the Research Publication workflow between Publishers, Domain Repositories, and Researchers. The Publisher side of this workflow has turned out to be way more complex than previously thought and the pain points between publishers with researchers and publishers with repositories are more entangled and tortuous than initially thought.
This work will be a scene-setter for the second part, which asks whether we need to update the COPDESS Statement of Commitment.
AudienceResearchers, repositories, data providers, publishers, and editors
