[CIG-MC] AGU's new data policy

[Shijie Zhong]

Hi Scott,

You raised an excellent question. We published a paper last month in GRL. Although the paper is not about convection modeling with only small amount of data all generated from semi-analytical solutions (of deformation and gravity anomalies for a tidally driven planet), as we worked on the data/code availability statement in the acknowledgement section, we struggled on what to do and also anticipated questions like yours for mantle convection modeling studies.

For modeling studies, it seems that modeling codes and input files should be sufficient. One does not need a lot of storage space for these files. I was also curious what public repositories our colleagues have been using. Another question that is probably more relevant to AGU is what type of codes they expect authors to put into the repositories, executables or the source codes? For codes publically available such as CitcomS or ASPECT, this is not an issue, but how about some new codes that authors are not ready to put to public domain? I was curious whether you all have any thoughts to share.

All the best,

Shijie

Shijie Zhong, Professor
Department of Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
http://mathis.colorado.edu/szhong
Tel: 303-735-5095; Fax: 303-492-7935


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Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 6:17 AM
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Subject: [CIG-MC] AGU's new data policy


AGU journals have a new data policy requiring that all the data from the work must be in a publicly accessible repository.  In general I think this is a good thing.   They provide several possible solutions.   From the editor letter…

"AGU requires that data needed to understand and build upon the published research be available in public repositories following best practices<http://publications.agu.org/author-resource-center/publication-policies/data-policy/data-policy-faq/>. This includes an explicit statement in the Acknowledgments section on where users can access or find the data for this paper. Citations to archived data should be included in your reference list and all references, including those cited in the supplement, should be included in the main reference list. All listed references must be available to the general reader by the time of acceptance.”

They list several possible repositories, none of which seem appropriate for 2.9 TB of CicomS results. Set aside the philosophical issue that model results are not “data” (they don’t accept that).   I have the output used in the published figures down to a reasonable size but. I’m curious what others are doing.  Has anyone else run into this yet?  (If not you will.)  I’m curious if there is a community consensus regarding a repository where all geodynamics results would/could end up, as opposed to ending up with them scattered across 3-4 (or more) potential repositories.  Maybe that’s not something to worry about, but since this is new and to me at least I’ve had no time to think it through, I’m curious what others are doing.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Scott



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