This is a quick summary of important points for you to know before you begin your submission
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Publication Scope
TERN only publishes data related to Australian terrestrial ecosystems and environmental science including plot observations, including data collected at ecological plots and flux towers, as well as environmental parameters derived from airborne or satellite sensors. Examples are available at portal.tern.org.au. We accept data in standard formats such as CSV, NetCDF, GeoTiff etc.
Note: You can supply your data in Excel format if it is also supplied in CSV format.
If you are not sure whether TERN is the right place to publish the type of data you have, contact us on esupport@tern.org.au for clarification.
Licensing
TERN accepts terrestrial ecosystem data for publication using a Creative Commons - strongly recommends the use of the least restrictive licence possible, which provides attribution to the data creators. Hence, TERN uses the Creative Commons – Attribution 4.0 International license. The license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. For more details(CC BY 4.0) as a default data licence. For licensing guide, see https://creativecommonswww.tern.org.au/licenses/by/4.0/datalicence/
Terms and Conditions
Please refer to TERN policy Terms of use on the use conditions of all TERN data, services and tools.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
When you lodge your submission, you can request that a DOI is created for your data set. TERN will lodge a DOI request through the Datacite. Users will be informed when DOI is successfully minted.
Note: DOI’s will only be minted We recommended data providers to mint DOIs only for completed datasets or data releases, not continuous datasets. TERN expects to be able to mint for continuous datasets in the future.
Data
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Contact
Each data submission:
must have at least one person designated as an “Author”
may have multiple “Authors” and “Co-authors”
must have a person designated as the “Point of Contact” for enquiries inquiries about the data
For each person:
you must supply at least their First Name, Surname, email address and Organisation.
please supply the 16 digit ORC ID ORCID, if available (orcid.org).
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Mandatory fields
Several other metadata fields are compulsory. You can see these by logging in and checking each tab in SHaRED.
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TERN may elect not to publish data hosted by third-parties providers, but we may be able to host the data for you.