• Publication Packages
• Data preservation and repositories
• Research data discoverability
• Long-term data access & rights
• Research Software discoverability

Publication Packages

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Data preservation and repositories

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Research data discoverability

To ensure the discoverability of the research data, it should be preserved in a public archive or repository that grants a persistent identifier (most commonly a DOI). This makes the data findable and easily referenced by other scholars.  

Data can additionally be made discoverable through personal and institutional channels (e.g. websites, blogs, etc), depending on the target audience.  

Long-term data access & rights

Published research data should come with a clear and accessible access conditions and data usage license. For more details, you can contact your data steward or click here. 

Research Software discoverability

Research software often lacks appropriate documentation which leads to a lack of recognition of the researcher’s work.  

To make their research software - whether it is Open Source or not - discoverable and citable, FSW researchers are encouraged to: 

• Choose a software-specific usage licence (for more details, please click here); 
• Document the software with relevant metadata that encompass at minima: the creators of the software, the name of the software, the date the software was "published" (the date of the release of the version), the identifier (if no persistent identifier is linked to the software, the URL – for example for software on GitHub), the version. Ideally an example of the citation format can be added such as “Developer, A. A., Developer, B. B., & Developer, C. C. (yyyy). Title of the software: Subtitle [Computer software]. Archive Name. Retrieved Month dd, yyyy, or version date and version number from https://URL” 

We also encourage FSW researchers to refer, when relevant, to their software within their publication (in a broad sense of the term publication: academic journals publications, pre-prints, blogs, etc) as a research element. More information on software citation can be found in this reference publication from Katz et al. (2021), and more information on the broader topic of research software on the website of the Research Software Community of Leiden​.