Research Transparency, Data Access, and Data Citation: A Call to Action for Scholarly Publications

Position statement created at the "Data Citation and Research Transparency Standards for the Social Sciences Meeting," Ann Arbor, MI, June 13-14, 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2013.This document summarizes the Data Citation and Research Transparency Standards for the Social Sciences Meeting held in Ann Arbor, MI, June 13-14, 2013. It describes the emergent consensus about research transparency and then challenges scholarly journals and publishers to play a leadership role in this movement. At the same time, journals cannot do this work alone. Success will require the coordinated efforts of all stakeholders including professional associations, funding agencies, universities and their constituent academic departments, data repositories, researcher training programs, and researchers themselves.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136147/1/ResearchTransparencyDataAccessandDataCitationACalltoActionforScholarlyPublications.pd

Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data: A Call for Change from an Interdisciplinary Working Group of Domain Repositories

In February 2013, the U.S. Government's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum calling for all federal agencies funding data collection to create plans for public access to research projects. On June 24-25, 2013, representatives from 22 data repositories spanning the social and natural sciences met in Ann Arbor, MI. The meeting, organized by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, created a space to discuss the challenges facing repositories across domains, and to strategize around issues of sustainability. Attendees endorsed a unified call for change, stating that domain repositories must be funded as the essential piece of the U.S. research infrastructure that they are.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136149/1/SustainingDomainRepositoriesforDigitalDataACallforChangefromanInterdisciplinaryWorkingGroupofDomainRepositories.pdfDescription of SustainingDomainRepositoriesforDigitalDataACallforChangefromanInterdisciplinaryWorkingGroupofDomainRepositories.pdf : Position statemen

ICPSR Data Seal of Approval 2013 certification

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) acquired the Data Seal of Approval of 2013 on May 19, 2014. This was a recertification based on the guidelines version 2014-2017 set by the Data Seal of Approval Board. ICPSR had previously acquired the Data Seal of Approval of 2010 on February 15, 2011 (for the 2010 certification report, see: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/144318). Created by the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) archive in The Netherlands and overseen by an international board, the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) was meant to demonstrate to researchers that data repositories are taking appropriate measures to ensure the long-term availability and quality of data they hold. The seal set forth 16 guidelines related to trustworthy data management and stewardship. ICPSR was one of the first six data repositories to earn the Data Seal of Approval in 2011. The other five archives awarded the Data Seal of Approval are the Archaeology Data Service (United Kingdom); the DANS Electronic Archiving System (Netherlands); the Platform for Archiving CINES (France); the Language Archive of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Netherlands); and the UK Data Archive. The seal was awarded after an online self-assessment regarding a data repository's adherence to the guidelines. The assessment was then reviewed by the DSA Board before the seal was given. In 2017, CoreTrustSeal Data Repository certification replaced the Data Seal of Approval certification.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144319/1/icpsr_dsa_certification_2014.pdfDescription of icpsr_dsa_certification_2014.pdf : Repor

ICPSR CoreTrustSeal 2019 certification

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) became a CoreTrustSeal core certified repository on August 28, 2019. The certification is based on the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2017–2019. CoreTrustSeal is an international, community based, non-governmental, and non-profit organization promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures. CoreTrustSeal replaces the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) certification and World Data System (WDS) Regular Members certification. ICPSR was one of the first six data repositories to earn the Data Seal of Approval in 2011. ICPSR earned the World Data System certification in 2013. The Core Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements were developed by the DSA–WDS Partnership Working Group on Repository Audit and Certification, a Working Group (WG) of the Research Data Alliance. Core certification involves a minimally intensive process whereby data repositories supply evidence that they are sustainable and trustworthy. A repository first conducts an internal self-assessment, which is then reviewed by community peers.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/150662/1/coretrustseal_Inter-university-Consortium-for-Political-and-Social-Research.pd

ICPSR Data Seal of Approval 2010 certification

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) acquired the Data Seal of Approval of 2010 on February 15, 2011. Created by the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) archive in The Netherlands and overseen by an international board, the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) was meant to demonstrate to researchers that data repositories are taking appropriate measures to ensure the long-term availability and quality of data they hold. The seal set forth 16 guidelines related to trustworthy data management and stewardship. ICPSR was one of the first six data repositories to earn the Data Seal of Approval in 2011. The other five archives awarded the Data Seal of Approval are the Archaeology Data Service (United Kingdom); the DANS Electronic Archiving System (Netherlands); the Platform for Archiving CINES (France); the Language Archive of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Netherlands); and the UK Data Archive. The seal was awarded after an online self-assessment regarding a data repository's adherence to the guidelines. The assessment was then reviewed by the DSA Board before the seal was given. In 2017, CoreTrustSeal Data Repository certification replaced the Data Seal of Approval certification.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144318/1/Data Seal of Approval 2010 for Repository Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).pdfDescription of Data Seal of Approval 2010 for Repository Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).pdf : Repor