The Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS) is a collaboration among research repositories, scholarly publishers, and other stakeholders focused on jointly developing, implementing, and promoting leading practices around the preservation and citation of data, software, and physical samples that lead toward credit and reuse in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences. 

Information: https://copdess.org

The Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS) is a collaboration among research repositories, scholarly publishers, and other stakeholders focused on jointly developing, implementing, and promoting leading practices around the preservation and citation of data, software, and physical samples that lead toward credit and reuse in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences. 

COPDESS FOCUS AREAS

  • Citation practices for research outputs including data, software, and samples in scientific publications
  • Best practices and resources for journal editors and staff 
  • Support domain repositories in the Earth, environmental, and space sciences
  • Connect researchers with appropriate repositories; and 
  • Improving the workflows around FAIR scientific data and software and especially for between data repository discovery, ingest and curation, and journal peer review, publication, and post-publication linking and discovery.

COPDESS Co-Chairs: 

  • Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey
  • Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union 
  • Kerstin Lehnert, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
  • Erin Robinson, Metadata Gamechangers
  • Lesley Wyborn, Australian National University

Interested in COPDESS?

For general information, please contact datahelp@agu.org

COPDESS is hosted by ESIP; Administrative support is provided by AGU.