Committing to Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences

By Brooks Hanson, Kerstin Lehnert, and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld ! 15 January 2015 At a time when stewardship of Earth and space science data requires increased collaboration, a new initiative will join together major Earth and space science publishers, including the American Geophysical Union (AGU), with primary Earth and space science data repositories and related consortia. To mark the launch of the partnership, key publishers and repositories signed a joint statement of commitment (http://www.copdess.org/statement-of-commitment/), which makes the case for collaboration as follows: