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Editorial and Other Policies and Statements
- Current ESA editorial policy on data sharing. The following statement appears on the inside front cover of all ESA journals: The editors and publisher of this journal expect authors to make the data underlying published articles available.
- Policy on Referencing Data in and Archiving Data for American Geophysical Union Publications
- ESA's Vision statement on a National Ecological Data Center
- National Institutes of Health Data Sharing Policy details
Existing Data Registries, Data Centers, and Databases
- Dryad Data Repository
- ESA Data Registry
- Natural Resource and GIS Metadata and Data Store of the National Park Service
- Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES)
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC)
- World Data Center (WDC) for Biodiversity and Ecology
- VegBank, a vegetation plot database
- Conservation GeoPortal
Organizations, Committees, and Initiatives
- CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
- US National Committee (USNC) for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Ecoinformatics
- Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge project
- The Science of Collaboratories (SOC) project
- The Subcommittee on 21st Century Biology, commissioned by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences Advisory Committee
- The Public Domain of Digital Research Data OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data
- Taxonomic Databases Working Group
- Data Access Working Group (DAWG): Tools to Harness Data for Learning
- American Society of Mammalogists, committee on informatics, click on “informatics committee”
Suggested Readings
- Best Practices for Preparing Environmental Data Sets to Share and Archive (Previously entitled "Best Practices for Preparing Ecological and Ground-Based Data Sets to Share and Archive," Cook et al., 2001) Updated by L. A. Hook, T. W. Beaty, S. Santhana-Vannen, L. Baskaran, and R. B. Cook. June 2007.
- J. H. Reichman And Paul F. Uhlir. 2003. A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment 66 Law& Contemp. Probs. 315 (Winter/Spring 2003)
- Duke, C.S. 2006. Data: share and share alike. Guest editorial. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4: 395.
- Leslie, David M. 2007. A shifting mosaic of scholarly publishing, scientific delivery, and future impact changing the face of learned socieities. Journal of Mammalogy 2007;88:275-286
- Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist
- Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment toolkit
National Research Council publications:
- Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences Committee on Responsibilities of Authorship in the Biological Sciences
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest
- Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium Julie M. Esanu and Paul F. Uhlir, Editors, U.S. National Committee for CODATA
- Improving Access to and Confidentiality of Research Data: Report of a Workshop. Christopher Mackie and Norman Bradburn, Eds. Committee on National Statistics.
- Access to Research Data in the 21st Century: An Ongoing Dialogue Among Interested Parties Report of a Workshop
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