Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data

To make primary scientific data citeable as publications, several organisational and technical pre-conditions have to be met:

• Quality control of the primary data set by the author and by the data publishing agency,
• Quality control of the descriptive metadata set by the author and by the data publishing agency
• Long-term availability of the published data in online reporsitories (World Data Centres and GFZ Potsdam)
• Search function for data publications in library catalogues (e.g. TIBORDER)
• Access to the primary data with assignment of a persistent identifier and resolver system (DOI resolver)

How can I publish my own data?

To publish your data, contact one of our data publication agents (see list of agents).

Data intended for publication must meet the criteria stated above. Published data must be openly accessible and cannot be modified, like articles in scientific literature.

Costs

The assignment of a data DOI is free of charge.