The Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) project has delivered a report to the European Commission on Integration of Data & Publications.

This report examines the impact that data sharing is having on scholarly communications and outlines the barriers to this and the opportunties this presents for 3 stakeholder groups.

This report seeks to coalesce current thoughts and opinions from numerous and diverse sources to reveal opportunities for supporting a more connected and integrated scholarly record. Four perspectives were considered, those of the Researcher, who generates or reuses primary data, Publishers, who provide the mechanisms to communicate research activities, and Libraries & Data Centers, who maintain and preserve the evidence that underpins scholarly communication and the published record.