Assessing the uptake of persistent identifiers by research infrastructure users.

ABSTRACT: Significant progress has been made in the past few years in the development of recommendations, policies, and procedures for creating and promoting citations to data sets, software, and other research infrastructures like computing facilities. Open questions remain, however, about the extent to which referencing practices of authors of scholarly publications are changing in ways desired by these initiatives. This paper uses four focused case studies to evaluate whether research infrastructures are being increasingly identified and referenced in the research literature via persistent citable identifiers. The findings of the case studies show that references to such resources are increasing, but that the patterns of these increases are variable. In addition, the study suggests that citation

SUBMITTER: Mayernik MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5386254 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature