1. Data, Data
Everywhere
But not a dataset
to be found!
Toby Green
Head of Publishing, OECD
Credibility in Scholarly Communications
CrossRef Annual Meeting, London,
November 16th
2010

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3. I take as my text today . . .

4. . . . which showed how readers find
journal articles . . .

5. . . . scientifically.

6. The Survey found . . .
You’ve already got in hand.
11 different ways are used

7. . . . and where do you start
searching?
11 different starting points
Specialist bibliographic
databases beat Google

8. >95% of the time

9. Discovery web

10. Discovery web
Therefore can we conclude that
data objects get this much
discoverability?

11. Equal opportunities for data!
Equal
rights
for data!
NOW!

12. What does it take to make data equal?
 Dataset home page
with DOI
 Datasets in
aggregation platforms
 Alerts when new
data is released
 More data from us!
 Links from statistician’s
home page
 Datasets listed on
sites like arXiv?
 MARC records for
OPACs
 Datasets in A&I services
 Links from statistical
societies
And this
is a lot
of work!

13. ScienceD
irect
OPACs
Grey
Stuff
Networked
ebooks and ejournals
Periodicals Books Working
Papers
Datasets Data Tables
And this
was a lot
of work
too!

14. Networked
ebooks and ejournals

16. 710
Datasets
10,081
Tables
And every single one with
equal bibliographic status to
books, journals and working papers.

17. And because we’re using the same
bibliographic systems . . .
 Dataset home page
with DOI
 Datasets in
IngentaConnect
 Alerts when new
data is released
 More data from us!
 Links from statistician’s
home page
 Datasets on Repec
 MARC records for
datasets
 Datasets in EconLit
 Links from statistical
societies
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18. And finally . . .
http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/
In case, you think we’ve wasted our
time and readers still can’t find our data

19. Thank you
Inger S., Gardner T., How Readers Navigate
to Scholarly Content
http://www.sic.ox14.com/
A white paper describing the metadata
schema used for OECD datasets and tables
is available at:
http://doi.org/abr
www.oecd-ilibrary.org