Citation

The name of the information system PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data points to its ability to publish data. By using Pangaea as a publisher, entities of data, as definied by the authors, are handled similar to standard text publications. The operating institutions AWI and MARUM have committed to long-term and reliable access and widespread distribution through portals, search engines and library catalogs.

A data publication always starts with a well defined Citation: text, consisting of the standard bibliographic fields (see below) which can used by others to reference to it in publications or allows to find its content easily:


 * Author(s); last name followed by (full!) 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
 * Title of the data set
 * Source institution; is optional and only used if data are not supplementary to a reference
 * Publisher is PANGAEA by default
 * DOI (Digital Object Identifier); starting with 10.1594/PANGAEA. ...

After import, final technical control by the data curator and scientific review by the PI, a data set has the status published - which means it is now public available on the Internet. In a final step, the set can be transfered to the status published & citable. This status automatically initiates an entry of the citation in the library catalog of the German National Library of Science and Technology TIBORDER. For an other four weeks, this entry can still be edited; similar to text publications, the data publication can not be changed after this time.

Pangaea provides two groups of citable data:

1) Data supplement - data are supplementary to a scientific paper and thus are part of it and not a publication by its own:
 * Hollis, Chris (1993): Latest Cretaceous to Late Paleocene radiolarian biostratigraphy: A new zonation from the New Zealand region, Marine Micropaleontology, 21(4), 295-327,, [supplementary data: ].


 * In this case the citation of the paper must be used when using the data. The full citation provided by Pangaea consequently contains two DOI, one linking to the paper itself, and the second pointing to the data supplement.

2) Data publication - data are solely published (made public available) through Pangaea with the institute given as the data source:
 * König-Langlo, Gert; Gernandt, Hartwig (2006): Compilation of radiosonde data from the Antarctic Georg-Forster station of the German Democratic Republic from 1985 to 1992, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, 


 * For data publications a new journal will be established by the EGU publisher Copernicus, called Earth System Science Data and Methods, The Data Publishing Journal [[Image:ESSDM_Flyer.pdf]]. This should include a peer-review for data publications and finally an ISI indexing.

Suggestion for a note in a publication or report to its data supplement:
 * For supplementary data see 

Suggestion for a note in a book or special volume of a journal containing various publications refering to the general use of Pangaea:
 * ''All data related to publications of this volume are available in Open Access through the data library PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data (www.pangaea.de). Individual data sets are referenced by its DOI for direct access and citation.