Deadline Extended: Submissions due March 25, 2021 April 8, 2021

Share your data curation expertise, ideas, and experiences!

Funders and research communities increasingly require that data sets arising from sponsored research must be preserved and shared, and many publishers either require or encourage that data sets accompanying articles are made available for reuse and reproducibility through a publicly accessible repository. Simply sharing the data on a website is not enough to ensure it’s potential reuse – the data must be curated. Increasingly, data specialists are called upon to check submissions, understand the data, augment metadata, and work with researchers to publish a robust data package. In short, curators are tasked with making data FAIR through a variety of approaches.    

In this Special Issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB), to be published in August 2021, the editors are looking for articles on how information professionals are implementing data curation practices, workflows for institutions and repositories, ideas and sparks for improving data curation practices, and more. All submissions are subject to peer-review based on article type. The issue will have a board of Data Curation Network guest editors.

This special issue will be followed by an ongoing column on featured data curation practices. 

Anyone wishing to submit an article should visit the Author Guidelines for more information. Additionally, an author may email any of the guest editors to discuss an idea. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

  • Data curation primers and primer updates to previously published primers
  • Data curation best practices 
  • Curation case studies for specific data types and/or formats
  • Tool reviews (such as the Excel Archival Tool, STATtransfer, HashMyFiles, etc.)
  • Real-life curation workflows 
  • Data Sparks: Exploratory ideas and pilot projects for more effectively curating data 
  • Incorporating ethical considerations into curation practices

We are also interested in a variety formats of publications, such as:

  • Videos
  • Images/Models/Workflow diagrams
  • Code 
  • Texts/manuscripts 

The submission deadline for full articles is March 25, 2021 April 8, 2021, with acceptance notification around May 19, 2021. Contact the issue guest editors: