Citation

The word Publishing in PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data points to its functionality to publish data. Pangaea intends to establish the data citation with a handling similar to normal publications: citable, long-term accessible, easy to find, distributed via a library catalog.

A publication requires a well defined bibliographic citation which is used to reference and to find its publication. Pangaea data citations will be included in library catalogs. (Keep in mind, that publications can not be changed.)

Four weeks after setting the status of a data set to published it becomes citable. The citation is displayed at the beginning of a data set description and includes the following elements:


 * Author(s); last name followed by first name, separated by komma; authors separated by semikolon
 * Year of publication, in brackets, i.e. the year when the data set was made available via Pangaea, followed by a colon
 * Title of the data set
 * Source (optional); institution, only used if data are not related to a scientific reference
 * Publisher; will always be PANGAEA (at this time)
 * DOI (Digital Object Identifier); begins with 10.1594/PANGAEA. ...

Example of a data set published in a scientific paper:
 * Michels, Klaus; Grobe, Hannes (2000): Silt grain size distribution of sediment core PS1599-3, PANGAEA,  as part of a
 * parent set of all data sets related to the reference given .

Example of a data set published through Pangaea with the institute given as the data source:
 * König-Langlo, Gert (2005): Meteorological observations during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XVII/2, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, 

Example text for a book or special volume of a journal containing various publications refering to the general use of Pangaea as the data archive:
 * ''All data related to publications of this volume as well as any other data mentioned herein are public available from the Open Access library PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data (www.pangaea.de). Individual data sets are referenced by its DOI for direct access and citation.