[BOAI] Open Access Geoscience Data Journal Launched by Wiley

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*Open Access Geoscience Data Journal Launched by Wiley*

*Hoboken, N.J., July 16, 2012. * John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has partnered
with the Royal Meteorological Society to launch the *Geoscience Data Journal
* <http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=60327&u=1590217> as
part of the Wiley Open
Access<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=60327&u=1590216>publishing
program. The new online-only journal will publish short, earth
science data papers cross-linked to datasets that have been deposited in
approved data centres and awarded DOIs.

“It is becoming increasingly important that the data which underpins key
findings should be made more available to allow for the further analysis
and interpretation of those results,” said Mike Davis, Vice President and
Managing Director, Life Sciences Wiley. “The ability of researchers to
create and collect often huge new data sets has been growing rapidly in
parallel with options for their storage and retrieval in a wide range of
data repositories. We are launching the *Geoscience Data Journal* in
response to these important developments.”

The editorial team, which includes representatives from the Natural
Environment Research Council and the British Atmospheric Data Centre, is
led by Dr Rob Allan from the UK Met Office, and will work alongside a
global network of data centres. The journal will play a crucial role in the
curation and archiving of digitally stored datasets, ensuring geosciences
data is easily accessible, readable and understandable for years to come.

*Geoscience Data Journal* is online-only and will publish short data papers
(articles describing a dataset, giving details including collection,
processing, software and file formats) covering topics ranging from weather
and climate, to oceanography, atmospheric chemistry and geology. All
published data papers will be linked to datasets, which provide details of
the collection, processing and file formatting of data.

“Issues around provenance, curation, recognition and discovery of data have
always been important, but never as much as over recent years,” said
Professor Paul Hardaker, Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological
Society. “Being able to publish data in a peer-reviewed journal not only
helps to address many of these challenges, but for the first time will help
to recognise the contribution that data and those scientists that work with
data make to the wider community.”

“The establishment of journals which allow for the formal peer-review,
publication and citation of data sets provides a real opportunity to
promote open data, improve the openness and transparency of the research
process and promote the re-use of data held by NERC and other research
organisations,” said Mark Thorley, Head of Science Information at the
Natural Environment Research Council. “NERC has been an active supporter of
the data science activities that have led to the establishment of this
journal, and we will be encouraging and supporting our research community
to use it to publish data sets that they hold.”****


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*About the Geoscience Data Journal:*
The *Geoscience Data Journal* aims to provide a platform where scientific
data can be formally published, in a way that includes scientific
peer-review. This will provide the dataset creator with full credit for
their efforts, while also improving the scientific record, and allowing
major datasets to be fully described, cited and discovered.

*Journal URL:*
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2049-6060<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=60327&u=1590217>

*About The Royal Meteorological Society:*
The Royal Meteorological Society is the Professional and Learned Society
for Weather and Climate. The Society serves not only those in academia and
professional meteorologists, but also those whose work is affected in some
way or other by the weather or climate, or simply have a general interest
in the weather. The membership includes scientists, practitioners and a
broad range of weather enthusiasts.
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*About Natural Environment Research Council:*
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is the UK's main agency for
funding and managing world-class research, training and knowledge exchange
in the environmental sciences. It coordinates some of the world's most
exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change,
food security, environmental influences on human health, and the genetic
make-up of life on earth. NERC receives around £300 million a year from the
government's science budget, which it uses to fund research and training in
universities and its own research centres.
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