Dear All
I am looking for some advice about the EPSRC Research Data Policy, in particular your opinion regarding article’s ESI (electronic supplementary information) considered as research data.
As RDM team we have been asking our researches/academics to deposit raw research data in our IR in order to comply with EPSRC. The answer we are often given is that the ESI is already openly available with the article on the journal's website and that should be enough. However, in most of the cases the ESI is a .pdf or .docx document with additional images/graphs/charts which we believe is not actual data but only a representation of it (same as the article) and as such it cannot be re-used to do further research and does not allow the validation of the research findings.
Have you ever received similar comments? Would you consider ESI enough to comply with EPSRC?
I would really appreciate your advice.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Federica
Dr Federica Fina
Data Scientist
University of St Andrews Library
North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9TR
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462343
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