Publishing research data¶

Research data can be published on the internet through:

• generic web archives (e.g. archive.org)
• research data sites (e.g. figshare)
• more general open access research hosts (e.g. f1000 Research)
• thematic repositories dedicated to a specific discipline / subject area - sadly there is no sign of an appropriate repository for digital music and audio research
• institutional repositories dedicated to research from a specific organisation (e.g. QMUL have a repository through which Green open access copies of papers by QM research staff can be published).

Within the Centre for Digital Music, we now have a research data repository for publishing reserach data outputs from the group.

Journals¶

Of the journals most commonly asssociated with C4DM outputs, three allow the addition of supplemental materials when publishing a paper:

• The online Journal of the Acoustical Society of America is published through the American Institute of Physics and allows authors to submit supplementary materials with journal papers. However, note that the JASA transfer of copyright includes all material to be published. More positively, the author can immediately publish the article on their own web-site (with a citation, link to the ASA version, and description of any differences) and, 6 months after ASA publication, the author's institution can republish the article as published with appropriate citations. [Sherpa/Romeo]
• Computer Music Journal is published by MIT Press. Again, supplementary materials can be published with journal articles. Non-commercial publication of the article is allowed on both the author's and the author's institution's web-sites after the appropriate embargo period (6 months at the time of writing this). But are supplements published online [Sherpa/Romeo]
• The IEEE Signal Processing Society publish the IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing and will publish multimedia files (audio, images, video) and Matlab code [Sherpa/Romeo]

The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society doesn't currently support data attachments for papers. [Sherpa/Romeo]

Misc. Other Repositories¶

The Digital Curation Centre have a (very short) list of repositories .

Repositories using DSpace can be registered on the DSpace web-site, for inclusion in the list of Who's using DSpace ? .

Within the University of London, the School of Advanced Study has a repository of humanities-related items.

University of the Arts London have an online repository

Edina provides a national data centre

EDINA is a UK national academic data centre, designated by JISC on behalf of UK funding bodies to support the activity of universities, colleges and research institutes in the UK, by delivering access to a range of online data services through a UK academic infrastructure, as well as supporting knowledge exchange and ICT capacity building, nationally and internationally.

Services hosted at EDINA include:

• JISC Mediahub
• OpenDepot open access to journal papers
• Mapping data