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Joint Position Statement on the Draft Data Repository Selection Criteria
Science Europe, COAR, CoreTrustSeal, the European University Association, and the World Data System issue this Joint Position Statement to highlight the community’s concerns over the 'Data Repository: Selection Criteria that Matter' recommendations and request that the authors of these criteria respond with specific actions.
Open Science requires a sustainable, trustworthy and comprehensive network of repositories that can support researchers around the world in managing, sharing and preserving their data. To achieve this, we will continue to strengthen and expand on the existing repository ecosystem and encourage the adoption of good practices.
Collectively, our organisations consider that the 'Data Repository: Selection Criteria that Matter' recommendations - as currently conceived - will act as an impediment to achieving these aims. As such, we are issuing this Joint Position Statement to highlight the community’s concerns and request that the authors of these criteria respond with specific actions.
Science Europe is particularly concerned that the publishers’ recommendations, as they currently stand, do not put researchers' needs first and risk excluding a significant number of data repositories that are of importance for many researchers across all disciplines.
Science Europe is convinced that the research community needs to collaborate and has regularly consulted research stakeholders over the last years to provide the best possible guidance for researchers to manage and share their data.
