GREI Data citation best practices for repositories

The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) has as one of its objectives the implementation of open metrics. A consistent approach to data citations is an important step to drive meaningful metrics that provide visibility on data usage, signal the added value of data repositories and enable reporting on the reach of NIH-funded research data. 

All of the GREI repositories (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Open Science Framework, Mendeley Data, Vivli, and Zenodo) already collect data citations or have it on their roadmap to add this feature. Building on their practices and experience in this area and in collaboration with Make Data Count, this group of generalist repositories has developed a set of recommendations for handling data citations at repositories.