Interagency Data Stewardship/Citations/provider guidelines - Federation of Earth Scienc... - 0 views
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Amy West on 13 Sep 11Little confused by what's meant by "data sets should be cited like books" since they go on to provide really good reasons why data aren't like books, e.g. need subsetting information, access date for dynamic databases.
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The guidelines build from the IPY Guidelines and are compatible with the DataCite Metadata Scheme for the Publication and Citation of Research Data, Version 2.2, July 2011.
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In some cases, the data set authors may have also published a paper describing the data in great detail. These sort of data papers should be encouraged, and both the paper and the data set should be cited when the data are used.
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