Promoting research data sharing at Springer Nature

…We want to enable our authors to publish the best research and maximize the benefit of research funding, which includes achieving good practice in the sharing and archiving of research data. We also aim to facilitate authors’ compliance with institution and research funder requirements to share data.

To help accomplish these goals we are introducing a set of standardized research data policies that can be easily adopted by journals and understood by authors. We are developing services to support implementation of the policies and aim to have the most comprehensive and inclusive research data policy of any large publisher.

These new policies and services aim to:

– improve author service and experience by standardizing research data policies and procedures between journals where appropriate
– improve reader service by providing more consistent links between publications and data…