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CORSUB Data policy

CORSUB Data policy is consistent with, and in the spirit of, national and international policies and laws. Applicable policies or laws are those related to UN conventions, policies of international bodies often within the UN, policies and laws of the European Union. CORSUB Data policy is intended to be fully compatible with the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on public access to environmental information [1], the INSPIRE Directive [2], IOC [3], ICES [4], WMO [5], GCOS [6], GEOSS [7] and CLIVAR [8] data principles.

CORSUB makes data available freely and without restriction.

“Freely” means at no more than the cost of reproduction and delivery, without charge for the data itself.

“Without restriction” means without discrimination against, for example, individuals, research groups, or nationality.

According to the different types of assets, the access and use conditions vary: 1) metadata are freely accessible without any condition through the metadata catalogue; 2) data and products require acceptance of a license.

CORSUB makes data available to users by electronic download, after a period of embargo, upon acceptance of CORSUB Terms and Conditions (Annex I), and the submission of the Data request form (Annex II).

[1] Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/aarhus/index.htm).

[2] INSPIRE Directive for spatial information in the Community (http://inspire.jrc.it/home.html)
[3] IOC Data Policy (http://ioc3.unesco.org/iode/contents.php?id=200)

[4] ICES Data Policy 2006 (https://www.ices.dk/Datacentre/Data_Policy_2006.pdf)

[5] WMO Resolution 40 (Cg-XII; see http://www.nws.noaa.gov/im/wmor40.htm)

[6] Implementation plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in support of the UNFCCC, 2004; GCOS – 92, WMO/TD No.1219.

[7] Global Earth Observation System of Systems GEOSS 10-Year Implementation Plan Reference Document (Final Draft) 2005. GEO 204. February 2005.

[8] CLIVAR Initial Implementation Plan, 1998; WCRP No. 103, WMO/TS No. 869, ICPO No. 14. June 1998.

Annex I

CORSUB License Agreement: Terms and Conditions

1. The Licensor grants to the License a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to retrieve and use datasets and products in accordance with this license.

2. Data Users should not give to third parties any CORSUB data or product without prior consent from the Data Manager and Project Coordinator.

3. Data users must respect any and all restrictions on the use or reproduction of data. The use or reproduction of data for commercial purpose must be negotiated and require prior written permission from the data source.

4. Data cannot be used for legal, or for navigational purposes.

5. Data access will be guaranteed after a period of embargo of 3 years after the closure of the project.

6. Data access will be guaranteed after signing the CORSUB data request form.

7. Retrieval, by electronic download, and the use of data is free of charge, unless otherwise stipulated.

8. Regardless of whether the data are quality controlled or not, CORSUB and the data source do not accept any liability for the correctness and/or appropriate interpretation of the data. Interpretation should follow scientific rules and is always the user’s responsibility. Correct and appropriate data interpretation is solely the responsibility of data users.

9. Data users are requested to inform the CORSUB Data Manager and Project Leader of any problems encountered with CORSUB provided data. This feedback will increase the quality of the data.

10. Data users must respect the data license indicated in the relative metadata sheet.

11. Users must acknowledge data sources. It is not ethical to publish data without proper attribution or co-authorship. Any person foreseeing the use of CORSUB data in a publication must communicate with the data source, in particular when the journal requires the availability of data underlying the research findings. Data source and point of contact are indicated in the relative metadata sheet.

12. CORSUB data and products must be acknowledged, please cite as:

“CORSUB Project - To the CORe of the SUBstrate: inception and development of Mediterranean algal reefs (PRIN 2022 - Project n°2022RKHBMB”) funded by European Union – Next Generation EU”

13. CORSUB will invoke legal and technological measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement.

Annex II

CORSUB Data access request form

Name and Surname:

Organization:

Project name and funding organization:

Contact Information:

Please, list the CORSUB datasets you are interested in:

How will the data be used? (Please, provide as much information as possible concerning the purpose behind the data request and foreseen future publications):

Agree to CORSUB License Terms and Conditions

Date                                                                                                                                                   Signature

To be sent to:

Project coordinator: Valentina Alice Bracchi, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, valentina.bracchi@unimib.it

Data manager: Valentina Grande, Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) of the National Research Council (CNR), valentina.grande@cnr.it