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Zenodo Guide

How to use Zenodo (Open repository for EU-funded research)

Zenodo Guide

Vittorio Scarano Giuseppina Palmieri Maria Anna Ambrosino Vanja Annunziata Raffae...

What is NEOLAiA?

NEOLAiA is an European University Alliance of 9 young universities from small and medium size c...

Introduction

What is Zenodo and why we should use it

1. What is Zenodo

Before we dive into the technicalities, it is essential to understand the tool we are placing our...

2. Why we should use Zenodo

We should use Zenodo: 1. to shed light on our dark data, turning them into citable assets. Much ...

Getting started: account and integration

Account creation, profile settings and why integrate ORCID

1. How to create an account

Two starting environments Before we commit our research to the permanent scientific record, ...

2. How to set our profile

It's important to make sure to verify our email address immediately after registration. Without...

3. Why integrate ORCID

If we didn't sign up via ORCID, or if we did but haven't activated full synchronization, this is ...

Preparing our data: what we can upload

Recommended file formats, data cleaning and context

1. Recommended file formats

Before we rush to click the "New Upload" button, we need to pause and look at our files with a cr...

2. Data cleaning and context

Data cleaning Uploading "dirty" data creates confusion. Before publishing, we have a responsibil...

The upload process (step by step!)

Communities, file upload, metadata, DOI

1. Communities and file upload

Now we arrive at the core action. Clicking the "New upload" button is not just an administrative ...

2. DOI and metadata

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) This is the most critical technical decision we make. We h...

Rights and licensing

How to choose the access level and ethical implications

1. Who can see this?

When we reach the "rights section" of the upload form, we are faced with a fundamental decision. ...

2. What are people allowed to do?

Once we open the gate, what are people allowed to do? We use Creative Commons (CC) licenses to te...

Advanced features: versioning and GitHub

How to manage new versions of a file and integration with GitHub

1. The importance of a living record

One of the greatest fears in publishing is permanence. What if we find a typo in our dataset tomo...

2. The integration with GitHub

For those of us who write code, GitHub is our laboratory, but it is not an archive. GitHub reposi...

After the upload: impact and curation

How to cite a Zenodo record, how to read statistics and how to correct metadata after publication

1. The "cite as" box

The moment we click "Publish" is not the end of the road, but the beginning of the file's indepen...

2. How to misure impact

How do we know if our work is useful? Zenodo provides compliant usage statistics. These statistic...

3. How to correct mistakes

We might realize we misspelled a co-author's name or forgot a crucial keyword the day after publi...

Quick answers to common questions

E. g. "What happens if CERN shuts down?"

Some questions

We are committing our intellectual work to a platform we do not own, so it is natural to ask hard...

Sources

What we used to create this guide

Webography

Help | Zenodo (https://help.zenodo.org/) Zenodo | Infrastructrures (https://about.zenodo.org/i...

License

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA This license enables reu...
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