Kyle,
Are your students archiving these in repositories that will
issue a doi for the citation information? (Merritt, Dryad if they
correspond to already published work, etc)?
Here's a few more refs that have argued for this, some quite extensively.
This whole piece is essentially an argument for data citation:
Mons,
B., Haagen, H. van, Chichester, C., Hoen, P.-B. ’T, Dunnen, J. T. den,
Ommen, G. van, et al. (2011). The value of data. Nature genetics, 43(4),
281-3. Nature Publishing Group. doi: 10.1038/ng0411-281.
Birney, E., Hudson, T. J., Green, E. D., Gunter, C., Eddy, S.,
Rogers, J., et al. (2009). Prepublication data sharing. Nature,
461(7261), 168-70. doi: 10.1038/461168a.
"another would be to track
the usage and citation of data sets using electronic systems similar to
those used for traditional publications" who cite this in support:
Sharing Data from Large-scale
Biological Research Projects: A System of Tripartite Responsibility
(Wellcome Trust, 2003); available at
www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/ corporatesite/@policy_
communications/documents/ web_document/wtd003207.pdf
Tenopir, C., Allard, S., Douglass, K., Aydinoglu, A. U., Wu, L.,
Read, E., et al. (2011). Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and
Perceptions. (C. Neylon, Ed.)PLoS ONE, 6(6), e21101. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0021101.
"Providing a secure but flexible cyberinfrastructure while
promulgating best practices such as data citation and metadata reuse,
will help build confidence in data sharing"
Rod discusses data citation quite a bit here:
Page, R. D. M. (2010). Enhanced display of scientific articles using
extended metadata. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the
World Wide Web, 8(2-3), 190-195. doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.004.
Constable,
H., Guralnick, R., Wieczorek, J., Spencer, C., & Peterson, a T.
(2010). VertNet: a new model for biodiversity data sharing. PLoS
biology, 8(2), e1000309. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000309.
"By ensuring that data remain curated at the source, and by showing the
importance of data sharing to promote data citation and usage, we have
grown past our original technology implementation and are ready to move
into a long-term production environment that departs from the original
model."
These three make mention of data citation, mostly in reference to increased citation rates of papers.
Moore, A. J., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., &
Whitlock, M. C. (2010). The need for archiving data in evolutionary
biology. Journal of evolutionary biology, 23(4), 659-60. doi:
10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01937.x.
Whitlock, M. C., McPeek,
M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Moore, A. J. (2010). Data
archiving. The American naturalist, 175(2), 145-6. doi: 10.1086/650340.
Whitlock,
M. C. (2010). Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1-5. Elsevier Ltd. doi:
10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.006.
Mark Parson's talk:
http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-awareness.html