We are pleased to announce that Research Data Australia has begun harvesting data collection records from UQ eSpace. Researchers can now describe their data collections in eSpace, and then the harvest makes the data description visible through Research Data Australia.

This allows researchers and research groups to describe their research data according to good practice, in order to aid the discovery, dissemination, and preservation of their research data. This goes some way to champion research datasets as being a first-class research output at UQ.

Figshare Partners with Open Access mega journal publisher PLOS

Figshare announced this week that they have gone into partnership with PLOS to host the supplemental data for all seven PLOS journals. For ease of access to view the data, PLOS will provide a widget, which will allow the users to view the data alongside the content.

F1000Research (launched 2013) is an original open-access publishing program for life scientists it offers:

• Immediate publication
• Transparent peer review (post-publication)
• Full data deposition and sharing

Other service on this platform includes:

F1000Posters an open access repository of conference posters and oral presentations from across biology and medicine. F10000 claims that by depositing you poster it will:

The latest issue of World Archaeology is a special issue on "Open Data"

Articles includes:

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman launched the Queensland Government data portal stating "Data is becoming the currency of our society. By making government data available to the public we will allow Queenslanders to develop innovative services and solutions" (Dec 2012).

A snapshot of the datasets available at data.gov.au include:

On the 13th December the latest open-access journal eLife was official launched. A press release yesterday stated eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life sciences and biomedicine reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website.

eLife aims to provide a journal portal that invites visitors to

Velichka Dimitrova is the project coordinator for Economic and Energy at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Her latest blog deliberates the management of data, asking the question can economic research results be replicated? For further informatation go to the project EDaWaX (European Data Watch Extended) which examined scholarly economic journals and data.

Searching for government data? The Australian Government has made available an extensive range of public datasets at http://data.gov.au/. Data.gov.au states that it aims to provide an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments, encouraging users of the datasets to develop tools and applications for all Australian to use.

Apps developed using Australian Government datasets include:

Australian Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) data discovery portal is now LAUNCHED. TERN's mission is "to link the science and scientists both within and across disciplines" through a data portal which will collect, store and distribute important data.

Major datasets from Australian scientists are discoverable in this portal, they include:

RunMyCode is a revolutionary scientific validation tool. A cloud based platform that allows researchers to share the code and data that underlies their research.

It has three main objectives: