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AGU Publishing• Largest major publisher in the Earth and
space sciences• 20 Journals (Newest: GeoHealth, open for
submissions 1 November).• >6000 published papers per year;
~20,000 authors and reviewers.
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ORCID• 1 March 2016 - ORCIDs required for
corresponding authors; encouraged for all others
• 1 March – reviewers can receive credit in their ORCID record
• 18,408 ORCIDs associated with accounts in our database as of 19 September
• Very few problems or complaints. – multiple accounts- user has an old account
with the ORCID linked to it and then creates a new account and cannot link the ORCID.
Recent Alignment by Publishers, Repositories, and Funders Around Data
and identifiers• TOP (transparency and openness promotion guidelines)
538 journals• COPDESS.org (Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth
and Space Sciences)—Statement of Commitment endorsed by most publishers and repositories in the Earth and space sciences
• Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles endorsed by 109 organizations including most major publishers.
• Reproducibility conferences and outcomes (AAAS and other orgs)
• Certification standards for repositories
Challenge is practicing what you preach
Coalition on Publishing Data in
the Earth and Space Sciences
(COPDESS.org)Connecting Earth Science publishers and
Data Facilities to help translate the aspirations of open, available, and useful
data from policy into practice.– Formed in October 2014– Endorsed a Statement of Commitment, 2015
• Includes: joint best practices between journals and repositories; references.• Promotes Use of Identifiers• Signed by Most ESS Publishers and Major Repositories
– Directory of repositories—AGU is about to point to them– Promoting Best Practices around Citations and Identifiers
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Samples: Use IGSN’s • International Geo Sample Number:
http://www.geosamples.org/ • Globally unique and persistent identifier for
physical samples in the field sciences – guaranteed to be unique via a centralized control
mechanism– resolves to virtual sample representations (sample
metadata profiles) managed at federated IGSN Allocating Agents
– Can generate and register before or after field work
10/20/2015
Broader effort in Promoting Identifiers and Citations
• ORCID (for People)• IGSN (for Samples)• GRID (institutions)• CrossRef Funder Identifier (for
Funders)• Citations for Data and Software
Repositories in Metadata (identifiers for repositories)?
