Alberto Pepe edited Rule 5. Link data to publications.md  over 10 years ago

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# Rule 5. Link your data to your publications as early as possible  Whether your data is a table, a spreadsheet, an image, a graph, or an entire database, "data" include tables, spreadsheets, images, graphs, and/or databases, you should  make all of it available _with_ the paper. whatever paper presents it.  Share your data as early as possible in your research workflow: as soon as you are done with the analysis or while you are writing the article.At latest, release the data and other provenance information (see Rule 4) with the publication.  Various data and writing platforms offer easy ways to link or otherwise to include data in your publications. At a _minimum_, zip up and post a package of files (data, codes, documentation on parameters, metadata, license information, and/or lists of links to such) with a persistent online identifier. Many journals now offer standard ways to contribute data to their archives and link it to your paper, often with a persistent identifier, and if the journal hosting your paper doesn't, you can get your own (See Rule 2). Whenever possible, embed citations (links) to your data and code, each with its own persistent identifier, right into the text of your paper, just like you would reference other literature. Many journals already allow such links, and if yours do not, see Rule 10!