Publishing options

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Recently journal editors have updated their data policy and now require that data relating to the submitted paper should be made available by the authors. From the AGU data policy : "..all data necessary to understand, evaluate, replicate, and build upon the reported research must be made available and accessible whenever possible ..."

The aim of this change in the policy is to satisfy the principle that someone reading the paper should be able to reproduce your experiment. Again form the AGU policy : " For the purposes of this policy, data include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Data used to generate, or be displayed in, figures, graphs, plots, videos, animations, or tables in a paper.
  • New protocols or methods used to generate the data in a paper.
  • New code/computer software used to generate results or analyses reported in the paper.
  • Derived data products reported or described in a paper. "

There can be practical and even copyright limitations to do this, but these can be taken into account and it should not be an impediment to publication if properly documented. The JGR-Space Physics editor-in-chief has listed some of these challenges and clarified the scope of the policy on his blog. This include references to model data which apply to lots of the CLEx data as well.

The publishing policies page offer a list of data policies and requirements by publisher.



How to publish

NCI is now providing web services to publish data and metadata. This include a geonetwork catalogue to describe your dates (i.e. a metadata repository) and provide links to other description and to the dataset access point. Once you have a geonetwork record, NCI can mint a DOI for the dataset, as for papers a DOI makes the dataset easy to cite. The files can be made accessible to the public by using their TDS catalogue (THREDDS).

Up to now this was our main option to publish both metadata and the actual files. We are working towards offering an laternative for datasets which are not suitable for this collection. More details on these options will be added in this page soon!

Publishing with NCI

Reporting to CLEVER

Whichever way you decide to publish your data, as part of the nCI collection or with a repository provided by your institution, remember to add your published record to CLEVER the CLEX reporting hub, in the "Publications and Datasets" section.

You will need to record there only the main information: author, title, doi and citation.