Citing Data

Overview

This section discusses current recommended ways to cite datasets in BIL.
  1. Acknowledgement: Recommended way to acknowledge BIL.
  2. Dataset Citation: Recommended way to cite BIL entries.
    1. Datasets with DOIs
    2. Datasets without DOIs
    3. Groups of Datasets
  3. Licence and acceptable use

Citation

  1. Recommended way to acknowledge BIL

    Suggested text to acknowledge that entries from the Brain Image Library were used in a publication is below:

    This work used data from the Brain Image Library (RRID: SCR_17272)[1], which is supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under award number R24-MH-114793. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

    [1] Kathy Benninger, Greg Hood, Derek Simmel, Luke Tuite, Arthur Wetzel, Alexander Ropelewski, Simon Watkins, Alan Watson, and Marcel Bruchez. 2020. Cyberinfrastructure of a Multi-Petabyte Microscopy Resource for Neuroscience Research. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–7. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396653

    [2] Mariah Kenney, Iaroslavna Vasylieva, Greg Hood, Ivan Cao-Berg, Luke Tuite, Rozita Laghaei, Megan C. Smith, Alan M. Watson, Alexander J. Ropelewski 2023. The Brain Image Library: A Community-Contributed Microscopy Resource for Neuroscientists. bioRxiv 2023.12.22.573024; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.22.573024

  2. Recommended way to cite BIL entries
    1. Datasets with DOIs

      2. BIL is in the process of transitioning to a DOI system for datasets. For datasets that have been issued a DOI, the DOI landing page will contain the correct way to site the exact dataset which is in the form:

      Creator (PublicationYear). Title. Brain Image Library (RRID: SCR_17272). DatasetDOI

      Alternatively, for datasets that have been versioned, the form is:

      Creator (PublicationYear). Title. Version. Brain Image Library (RRID: SCR_17272). DatasetDOI

    2. Datasets without DOIs

      3. If you would like to cite a BIL dataset that does not yet have a DOI issued, please reach out to bil-support@psc.edu

      (Recommended). Otherwise, to cite a BIL dataset use the BIL dataset identifier. The landing page for the dataset will contain the correct way to site the exact dataset which is in the form:

      Creator (PublicationYear). Title. Brain Image Library (RRID: SCR_17272). BILDatasetIdentifier

    3. Groups of datasets

      4. BIL has the capability to issue a single DOI for a group of BIL datasets (for example, all datasets used in a paper). If you would like to take advantage of this service, please reach out to bil-support@psc.edu

  3. Licence and acceptable use

    BIL Data is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

    Use of Pre-publication Data.

    The library encourages researchers using datasets from the Brain Image Library for which there is no peer-reviewed publication identified, to contact the data producers to discuss possible coordinated publications and collaborations.