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BCO-DMO Data Citations, Ownership, and Terms and Conditions for Website Use

License

All datasets and associated information are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Per the CC BY 4 license, it is understood that any use of the data set will properly acknowledge the PI.

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Dataset citation

Dataset citations should include these key components:
Principal Investigator (PI) name(s) (VERSION YEAR) title of dataset, data version date, publisher or distributor, date accessed/retrieved by you, DOI or URL of the data set

Example Dataset Citations:

Gifford, D., Manning, J. (2004) Chlorophyll data from R/V Endeavor cruises EN321 and EN325 to Georges Bank in 1999 as part of the U.S. GLOBEC program (GB project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2004-07-14 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.2417.1 [access date]

Twining, B. (2016). “Element Quotas of Individual Synechococcus Cells Collected During Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) Cruises Aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer between 2012-07-11 and 2013-10-13”. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Dataset version 05/06/2016. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.651474 [access date]

More information on datasets

BCO-DMO recommends that you contact the original principal investigator (PI) should you require additional information about the data beyond what is available on our website. In the event the data originator is not available, please contact BCO-DMO (info@bco-dmo.org) for guidance.

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