In any field of study, the sharing of data is one of the most fundamental aspects of maintaining the integrity of research. The availability of research data plays a vital role in ensuring reproducibility and the ongoing development of Open Science. Acknowledging this, funders are increasingly developing data sharing policies for research funded by them.

The STM 2020 Research Data Year will directly support researchers by assisting publishers to:

• SHARE: accelerate the number of journals with data policies and articles with Data Availability Statements (DAS)

• LINK: accelerate the number of journals that deposit the data links to the SCHOLIX framework for linking datasets and publications

• CITE: accelerate the citations to datasets

In light of this, STM is organizing a FREE US workshop for STM members where we:

- Allow publishers and societies to learn from experienced publishers how they can facilitate data sharing for your authors

- Allow STM to learn how we can best support publishers in their efforts to increase the availability, linking and citation of data throughout 2020.

The topics that will be covered in the workshop:

Explaining Journal Policies

On data sharing, how to communicate to authors and editors what your journals can offer

Linking Data

Introduce and implement data linking to make sure that authors can publish their data alongside their article under a persistent DOI-link

Citing Data

Establish simple guidelines for data citation - Help authors to cite research data correctly, to ensure that credits are given where credit is due

Who should attend: STM member publishers who are interested in advancing the linking, transparency and citation of esearch data and who would like to learn first-hand from successful implementations.