Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data

Data publications are processed by publication agents. Besides the publication tasks the agents are also responsible for long-term archiving of primary data ("data library"). Each agent covers its own thematic field.

Agents for Earth and Environmental Sciences

World Data Center Climate (WDCC)
Scope: Earth system model data and related observations
Contact: Heinke Höck

World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE)
Scope: environmental oceanography, marine geology, paleoceanography, and marine biology
Contact: Info at PANGAEA

German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ Potsdam)
Scope: Solid earth geophysics, continental drilling
Contact: Dr. Jens Klump

World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (WDC-RSAT)
Scope: Earth observational data
Contact Séverine Bernonville

How to become a publication agent

Interested parties from other science disciplines may contact Dr. Jan Brase at the German National Library for Science and Technology (TIB).