ESA Data Registry
The editors and publisher expect authors to make the data underlying published articles available. Although public data availability is not strictly a requirement for manuscript published in Ecology, Ecological Applications and Ecosphere at this time, any information on materials, methods or data necessary to verify the conclusions of the research reported must be made available to the Subject-matter Editor upon request. As a condition for publication of a manuscript in Ecological Monographs, however, all data associated with the results reported in manuscripts submitted after January 1, 2011 must be made available in a permanent, publicly-accessible data archive or repository. See Data Policy.
Authors are strongly encouraged to register datasets associated with manuscripts accepted by ESA journals at ESA's official Data Registry at data.esa.org. New links to the Data Registry from the Instructions to Authors and from the ESA submission site itself will facilitate the registration of data by our authors. Our hope is that the Data Registry will serve as a mechanism for “data discovery,” leading to communication (and possibly collaboration) between researchers and to meta-analyses.
Data registry simply serves to announce the existence of data and to provide contact information. By registering data, one does not relinquish rights to research findings. In fact, the registry may serve to establish precedence for ecological studies. Our hope is that the Data Registry will eventually be linked to Data Archives containing the actual data referred to in the registry, and that all data underlying published papers in ESA journals will be readily available for purposes of verification, replication, and meta-analysis.
rev 5/5/11
