Like many global funding agencies, the UK’s, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) has mandated research data preservation and put the responsibility on institutions to comply. A key component of this preservation is ensuring accessibility and discoverability. The Royal Society of Chemistry is building a research data repository to hold different types of derived chemical information, as part of our EPSRC-funded National Chemical Database Service, to address some of these needs.<br/>We believe a number of steps need to take place before the chemistry community incorporates data management into their routine workflow. One is encouraging the development of community data standards. Another is showing the utility of wider information sharing, and our Compound Collection pilot for extracting compounds from theses has had great buy-in from academia, libraries and pharma companies. As a Publisher we are investigating overlap between research data availability, and our journal publication processes. As a learned society we feel our role is to aid our community by encouraging skills development and a wider understanding of the issues involved, and appreciating the potential opportunities.<br/>

The Royal Society of Chemistry and the data publication landscape

251st National Meeting (2016)

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