Research Data Sharing and Valorization

9Mendeley Data

Wouter HAAK, Juan GARCÍA MORGADO, Jennifer RUTTER, Alberto ZIGONI and David TUCKER

Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Introduction

Mendeley was launched in 2008 in London by students, as a scientific social network to manage and share publications. After its acquisition by Elsevier in 2013, other services and features were added to Mendeley, including a dedicated research data service. Mendeley Data – the name of this new service – is at the same time a data repository and a search engine to find data in other repositories. We asked Elsevier to tell us about this service, its particularities, positioning, challenge and its perspectives. Here are the responses.

For those readers who do not know about Mendeley Data, please can you describe its main purpose and mission?

Mendeley Data (Figure 9.1) is about storing, sharing, finding and following research data, and this is not restricted to a single repository but encompasses more than 2000 data repositories. At Mendeley Data, we believe when data are openly available, the pace of scientific discovery is increased: researchers can verify findings or reuse data to generate new findings. Funding agencies and publishers are increasingly asking for data to be tracked and shared. Mendeley Data was launched in 2015 to enable researchers to post research data, gain greater exposure and track the usage of their data. When you post your research data to Mendeley Data, it receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), so ...