JISC has released the Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS): Final Report.
Here's an excerpt:
The Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) project developed the mechanisms that could support both a new on-line Journal of Meteorological Data and an Open-Access Repository for documents related to the meteorological sciences. The project had three fundamental aims:
- Creation of overlay journal mechanics.
- Creation of an open access subject based repository for Meteorology and atmospheric sciences.
- Construction and evaluation of business models for potential overlay journals. . . .
The proposal for the Journal of Meteorological Data is that it would be an on-line, peer-reviewed data journal. It would extend the scientific discipline of peer review to data, providing recognition for the work of creating data. The rigorous, but manageable, standards for metadata and documentation prescribed will facilitate re-use of the data, encourage appropriate application of the data to scientific problems and enable experiments to be repeated. A review process was proposed which encompasses three elements: a data description document, metadata and the data themselves. All three elements would be reviewed, but citation would be of the text article
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