Scientific journals: guidelines for creating a data collection

Abstract

This article aims to suggest actions for the opening of scientific data, deposit, use and dissemination, so that scientific journals, linked to Higher Education Institutions, create open data collections. It is an applied social research, with a qualitative, exploratory, documentary approach and with action-research dimensions. A survey of the scientific data openness policies of the journals that use the Dataverse repository of Harvard University was carried out, based on the requirements of the quality seal of reliable digital repositories Core Trust Seal and the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines. The information obtained in this survey supported the implementation of action-research steps, through which guidelines were formulated to meet the proposed objective. With such results, other journals will be able to join the movement of open data adjacent to the articles they publish, expanding the scientific practices related to the movement for open science and the democratization of scientific knowledge.