LTER network data access policy revision: report and recommendations.

Abstract

This document is a report on work carried out to update the LTER Network Data Access Policy. The current LTER Network Data Access Policy, approved by the coordinating committee in 1997, has been in use since 1990. An analysis of the current policies related to the release, access, and use of LTER data has been undertaken by a sub-committee of the LTER Network Information System Advisory Committee with the goal of standardizing policies across the network. Recommendations for revising LTER Network data policies, especially with respect to those defining requirements for access to LTER data and terms of acceptable use of LTER data have been proposed and a revised LTER data policy has been drafted based on these recommendations and is attached as an appendix to this report.

Citation

Brunt, James; McCartney, Peter; Gage, Stuart; Henshaw, Don. 2004. LTER network data access policy revision: report and recommendations. LTER Network Information System: 1-12