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Hi folks, some of you will have seen this already, but yesterday Google launched a new dataset search feature <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06201-x?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nature%2Frss%2Fcurrent+(Nature+-+Issue)> (Nature news article link). You can give it a try yourself here: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch A few initial observations: - It's definitely harvesting metadata from DataCite and figshare; data.gov.uk and Kaggle are also in there, amongst other sources. I'd be interested to know their criteria for choosing sources and whether they can be persuaded to add to the list - It's doing its best to *only* show datasets: for example, figshare records of a type other than "Dataset" are not indexed - It's using a lot of the metadata available, including affiliations, authors, license, and presenting it in human readable form: get your metadata up to scratch! It will be interesting to see whether this can be used to show people how the completeness and accuracy of their metadata has a real-world impact on whether their data gets found and used or just ignored. Jez -- Jez Cope *(he/him/his)* Research Data Manager The University Library The University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 0114 22 27221 Twitter: @jezcope #WeAreInternational ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RESEARCH-DATAMAN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=RESEARCH-DATAMAN&A=1