Features of research data policies of Earth science and biodiversity academic society journals

Dataset related to Hübner (2020) Earth science and biodiversity journals can improve support for data publication. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-3818

This study reviews research data policies and author instructions of 31 journals from the Earth sciences and from biodiversity that are published by German learned societies or research institutions. The statements on data publishing of the journal´s data policies / author guidelines were matched to 14 pre-defined features of journal research data policies from Hrynaszkiewicz, I. et al. (2020) Developing a Research Data Policy Framework for All Journals and Publishers. Data Science Journal, 19: 5, pp. 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-005.