TIMED Mission

Guidelines for Data Use - Rules of the Road

Users of TIMED data are asked to respect the following guidelines: 

  - Mission scientific and model results are open to all. 

  - Users are encouraged to contact the PI or designated team member of an instrument or modeling 
    group early in an analysis project to discuss the appropriate use of instrument 
    data or model results. This applies to TIMED mission team members, guest investigators, 
    and other members of the scientific community or general public. 

  - Users that wish to publish the results derived from TIMED data are encouraged to offer 
    co-authorship to the PI or his/her designated team member. Co-authorship may be declined. 
    Appropriate acknowledgement to institutions, personnel, and funding agencies are encouraged to be given. 

  - Users are encouraged to heed the caveats of investigators as to the interpretation and limitations of 
    data or model results. Investigators supplying data or models may recommend that such caveats 
    be published, even if co-authorship is declined. Data and model version numbers are encouraged to also 
    be specified 

  - Pre-prints of publications and conference abstracts are encouraged to be widely distributed to interested 
    parties within the mission and related projects. 

Instrument Team-specific guidelines:
GUVI 	Data Usage Policy: //guvi/GUVI_data_usage_policy.txt
SABER 	"Rules of the Road" for Data Use: //saber/SABER_rules_of_the_road.txt
SEE 	Same Data Usage guidelines as the TIMED Mission Rules of the Road 
TIDI 	Conditions of Use: //tidi/TIDI_data_confitions_of_use.txt