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Data and Software in Research
Research data management encompasses all activities involving data that are used to address a research question, excluding the actual use of that data for research purposes. This includes the storage, processing or publication of data, for example. FAU and its central units, including the University Library, the RRZE and the FAU CDI, provide data management […]
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Many scientific publishers, databases and products offer tools that allow users to programmatically access, analyse, extract and use metadata, data and full text for various research purposes. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are programming interfaces that serve as an access point for retrieving and exchanging data. They provide commands and functions that make it easier to […]
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Numerical and/or alphanumerical institutional and author identifiers serve to uniquely link and attribute publications to their authors and their institutions or research funding organisations. This ensures that research is attributed to the correct persons, scientific institutions or third-party funding projects. For example, the designation ‘X. Huang, FAU’ in publications is ambiguous in more than one […]Numerical and/or alphanumerical institutional and author identifiers serve to uniquely link and attribute publications to their authors and their institutions or research funding organisations. This ensures that research is attributed to the correct persons, scientific institutions or third-party funding projects. For example, the designation ‘X. Huang, FAU’ in publications is ambiguous in more than one […]
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