[open-science] BioMed Central and LabArchives

Wed Apr 4 17:23:06 UTC 2012

Hi Bryan,

There is a paid version of LabArchives if users want more storage but
there's no obligation to use it, and datasets published and assigned
DOIs through the platform (free and paid) are available in perpetuity.
There is also no obligation for BMC authors to use LabArchives. But if
they do want to use it they will get an enhanced free product as part of
this partnership.

Hopefully the footnotes to and the full blog entry
<http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/labarchives_and_
biomed_central_a>  explain the situation.

Best,

Iain

"...

Permanence, citation and linking of datasets
In 2011 LabArchives introduced the ability to assign digital object
identifiers
<http://blog.labarchives.com/2011/04/19/labarchives-and-dois/>  (DOIs)
to datasets stored and shared with the software. DOIs facilitate data
citation, discovery and earning of academic credit for data publication,
and datasets assigned DOIs through LabArchives will remain available in
perpetuity. The DOI system is used by journal and data publishers, such
as DataCite members <http://datacite.org/members> , to ensure online
permanence of published articles. DOIs are indexed permanently by the
International DOI Foundation and are much more favorable than URLs for
permanently linking content online.

DOIs are assigned in LabArchives through the 'DOI Management' tab in the
software's share settings (pictured). DOIs should only be assigned in
instances in which data are to be permanently shared with the public.

A LabArchives user can choose to share a data set as it exists at the
time of publication, or they may enable users to continue to view
changes as they are made, while, importantly, maintaining the version
which supports a peer-reviewed publication. So, a DOI can be assigned to
data as of the time the article was published and authors or re-users of
the data may then continue with their research.

...

Footnotes

Use of LabArchives' software will have no influence on the editorial
decision to accept or reject a manuscript, and use of LabArchives or
similar data publishing services does not replace preexisting community
data deposition requirements set out in individual journals'
instructions for authors. 

The full version of LabArchives including 100GB of storage requires
payment <http://www.labarchives.com/pricing.php> . BioMed Central does
not receive any commission from LabArchives.

BioMed Central remains committed to work with all data repositories
which enable linking of data to publications particularly where specific
journals and communities endorse them - such as for example the Dryad
repository <http://datadryad.org/> , with which we are working towards
submission system integration with BMC Ecology and BMC Evolutionary
Biology. More information on data deposition requirements relevant to
BioMed Central's journals can be found on our supporting data resources
page <http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/supportingdata> ."

From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:kanzure at gmail.com] 
Sent: 04 April 2012 18:03
To: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz; Bryan Bishop
Cc: open-science at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [open-science] BioMed Central and LabArchives

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
<Iain.Hrynaszkiewicz at biomedcentral.com> wrote:

	As part of this partnership, all BioMed Central authors are now
entitled to an enhanced free version of LabArchives
<http://www.labarchives.com/bmc/> .

Can you elaborate on whether or not there is a non-free version of
LabArchives, and what the implications of this are? It looks like this
might be more proprietary lock-in? Just checking.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
1 512 203 0507

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