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14- Data Citation in the Dataverse Network
Pages 99-106

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... It provides search, data access, and data hosting, at no charge. The Harvard DVN functions also as a federated catalog of over 50,000 social science data data sets, including the holdings of the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences [Altman, et al.
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... Note that although this virtual archive is organized as a single collection, many of the datasets listed actually are distributed by different archives, and may be stored in different locations. FIGURE 14-1 Micah Altman's Dataverse.
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... This also indicates that the Archive takes "archival" responsibility for it, and will continue to ensure its long-term availability. Other datasets in my collection are distributed by ICPSR, and by the IQSS Dataverse Network.
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... using the system automatically produce these citations for all of their datasets. This standard is also in use by the member archives of the Data Preservation Alliance for Social Sciences (Data-PASS 2012)
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... These points are illustrated in the citation below, which is associated and drawn from a separate study in the independent Odum Dataverse Network. This citation includes optional extension fields imported from the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
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... Notwithstanding, workshop participants identified two broad corollaries: Citations to data should be presented along with citations to other works -- typically in a "references" section; and data should be made as easy to cite as other works -- publishers should not impose additional requirements for citing data, nor should they accept citations to data that do not meet the core requirements for citing other works. The workshop articulated three additional principles, based on discussions of the core uses of data citation: · At a minimum, all data necessary to understand assess extend conclusions in scholarly work should be cited.
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... type=1&fid=2315612&jid=PSC&volumeId =41&issueId=04&aid=2315604 http://www.box.net/shared/2tlvqxgnzu5p5sby2mzq. Data Preservation Alliance for Social Sciences, "Data Citations", 2012.
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From page 106...
... 2007. An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing.
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