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Today, the journal is announcing a series of improvements to the way we collect and expose the machine-readable metadata supporting our publications. These innovations are designed to make it easier for our authors to engage in the metadata creation process, and easier for users to access and benefit from the information we capture.
Scientific Data published its first batch of papers five years ago this week. Here, we reflect on our progress and thank all those that have helped us along the way.
Starting last month, publications at Scientific Data now include data citations in the main reference list, rather than in a separate data citations section. This change will be supported by changes to the underlying structure of our content to promote machine readability and reuse of links between scholarly articles and datasets. This aligns the journal with a roadmap for data citation co-developed by representatives of the academic community and several publishers, which seeks to make data citation a standard part of the scholarly publishing process.
