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Data Use Policy

D. Guidelines regarding collaborations, authorship, and acknowledgement

Table 3 . Contacts for use of site and species data, and scheduled release years for those data.

For those wishing access to these data in advance of these release dates and/or opportunities for collaboration, please contact the researchers involved to discuss your particular interests and goals. We welcome collaborations and can provide expert guidance regarding the power, utility, and potential limitations of these data. To avoid unwanted overlap or duplications of effort, we also post a list of planned forthcoming papers that are making use of these data at:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2xbhfc_74hzdk2tn8

We ask our colleagues and collaborators to be open and direct about their plans and expectations, e.g., by establishing clear a priori agreements for each authors’ role in a paper . As a courtesy and to assure good communication, we ask those using these data to join us in posing their titles and authors at this site. Those publishing work based on these data should also acknowledge the appropriate individuals listed in Table 1. Finally, we ask collaborators using these data not to share these data with other collaborators without first requesting permission from the appropriate researchers.

Authorship decisions clearly depend on context. We generally adhere to guidelines followed by many peer-reviewed journals, e.g., e veryone who is listed as an author should have made a substantial, direct, intellectual contribution to the work. For example they should have contributed to the conception, design, analysis and/or interpretation of data. Honorary or guest authorship should be avoided.

Last updated 5/1/09
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