Research Object is an emerging approach to the publication, and exchange of scholarly information on the Web. Research Objects aim to improve reuse and reproducibility by:

• Supporting the publication of more than just PDFs, making data, code, and other resources first class citizens of scholarship
• Recognizing that there is often a need to publish collections of these resources together as one shareable, cite-able resource.
• Enriching these resources and collections with any and all additional information required to make research reusable, and reproducible!

Research Objects are not just data, not just collections, but any digital resource that aims to go beyond the PDF for scholarly publishing!

This Zenodo community welcomes submissions of any such Research Objects in a FAIR data packaging format (e.g. RO-Crate, BagIt, COMBINE archive).

In addition we welcome preprints, Open Access articles, presentations and software covering Research Object topics such as:

• Research Object publication, archiving and curation
• Research Object creation and manipulation
• Research Object exploration and visualization
• Research Object evolution, derivation and provenance
• Handling Big Data in Research Objects
• Data Archive packaging and formats
• Rich metadata of research data and software
• Alignments of Research Object with community efforts
• Citation and attribution of research data and software
• Annotation and peer review of research data
• Distributed data publication (blockchain, nanopublication)
• Driving adoption within current scholarly communications ecosystem
• Research Object model domain extensions
• Research Object granular access control approaches
• Research Object social impact metrics
• Self-contained executable Research Objects (i.e., including execution environment description)

Submissions must use an open license, if you are not sure use Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (for text, figures, data, metadata) or Apache License 2.0 (for software, workflows, scripts).