“STM pub­lisher Else­vier, Nether­lands, has announced that the data library PANGAEA - Pub­lish­ing Net­work for Geo­sci­en­tific & Envi­ron­men­tal Data — and Else­vier have imple­mented rec­i­p­ro­cal link­ing between their respec­tive con­tent in earth sys­tem research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are now auto­mat­i­cally linked to the cor­re­spond­ing arti­cles in Else­vier jour­nals on its elec­tronic plat­form Sci­enceDi­rect and vice versa. The link­ing func­tion­al­ity also pro­vides a credit mech­a­nism for research data sets deposited in this data library.

The inter­ac­tion of a pub­lisher with an open access data repos­i­tory is pro­jected as being ideal to serve the require­ments of mod­ern research by dimin­ish­ing the loss of research data. It also enables the reader of a pub­li­ca­tion to ver­ify the sci­en­tific find­ings and to use the data in his/her own work. The Elsevier-PANGAEA coop­er­a­tion fol­lows the most recent rec­om­men­da­tions of fund­ing bod­ies and inter­na­tional organ­i­sa­tions, such as the OECD, about access to research data from pub­lic funding.

Work­ing with the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity to pre­serve sci­en­tific research data is also an objec­tive of the Else­vier Con­tent Inno­va­tion pro­gramme. Through the lat­est agree­ment, Else­vier expects to sup­port long-term stor­age, wide avail­abil­ity and preser­va­tion of large research data sets.

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