Clinicians, policy makers, decision makers, practitioners and many researchers in low-income countries still have limited access to key research findings, due to journal paywalls. The Global Young Academy has just launched the More Open Access pledge to push for...
Daisy Selematsela of the National Research Foundation, South Africa and a long-standing member of the CODATA PASTD Task Group has been nominated and awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award 2016 by the World Education Congress & Global Knowledge...
CODATA has released a call inviting proposals for Task Groups to be presented to the CODATA General Assembly on 11 September 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The below document provides detail of the required scope of such Task Groups as well as an indication of some...
In response to many requests, CODATA has agreed to extend the deadline for Task Group proposals. Proposals for Task Groups should be sent to simon@codata.org on the form included in that document no later than COB on Monday 25 July 2016. This is an absolutely final...
CODATA/ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation and hosted by The National Research Council's Board on Research Data and Information Workshop for data professionals focused on increasing awareness and encouraging policy and practice in support of data citation. Hear...
Editors: Louise Bezuidenhout (University of Witwatersrand and Notre Dame); Louise.M.Bezuidenhout.1[at]nd.eduSabina Leonelli (University of Exeter); S.Leonelli[at]exeter.ac.ukBrian Rappert (University of Exeter); B.Rappert[at]exeter.ac.uk Background: This Special Issue...
CODATA is pleased to announce further information relating to the US Data Citation Workshop: Developing Policy and Practice,Tuesday 12 July 2016. Keynote: The workshop will include a keynote from Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academies of Science. ...
A complete revised version of the Uniform Description System for Materials on the Nanoscale (UDS) is now available for download. Version 2.0 of the UDS is the result of two years of work and meetings by the CODATA-VAMAS Working Group on Nanomaterials that extensively...
The CODATA Task Group on Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research invites external review and comment on a draft White Paper which presents a 'Gap Analysis on Open Data Interconnectivity for Global Disaster Risk Research’. Comments are invited by 30...
The CODATA Prize is made every two years at our conference. It is a major award which recognises outstanding achievement in advancing the availability, quality and use of data for research. The 2016 CODATA Prize will be presented at SciDataCon 2016, 12-13 September...