Marine Sciences & Oceanography

Indexes research data sets and data studies from a wide range of international data repositories in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.  Discover research data connected to articles published in journals, books, and conference proceedings.  Links directly to data repositories for easy access to the deposited data sets. Includes two disciplinary sections:  Science (1900-present); Social Sciences & Humanities (1900-present).
[Coverage: 1900 - current]

Data Papers are compilations and syntheses of data sets and associated metadata deemed to be of significant interest to the ESA membership and the scholarly community. Data papers are peer reviewed and are announced in abstract form in the appropriate print journal as a Data Paper. Data papers differ from review or synthesis papers published in other ESA journals in that data papers normally will not test or refine ecological theory. Data Papers can facilitate the rapid advancement of ecological knowledge and theory at the same time that they disseminate information. In addition, Ecological Archives provides a reward mechanism (in the form of peer-reviewed, citable objects) for the substantial effort required to compile and adequately document large data sets of ecological interest.

Dryad is an open-source, research data curation and publication platform. UC Davis is a proud partner of Dryad and offers Dryad as a free service for all UC Davis researchers to publish and archive their data. Datasets published in Dryad receive a citation and can be versioned at any time. Dryad is integrated with hundreds of journals and is an easy way to both publish data and comply with funder and publisher mandates.