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As Revised 2015-03-30:

The overarching NASA policy for distribution and use of NASA mission data products are specified in the NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy document. The MMS Science Data Management Plan specifies their application to the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, as summarized below: 

• Beginning no later than 6-months after instrument commissioning, MMS instrument teams will generate Level-2 science data products and deliver to the SOC within 30 days of downlink from each spacecraft. 
• All scientifically useful MMS-SMART data products are open to all scientists and the public (Users) at the MMS SOC.  
• There are no proprietary periods associated with any of the MMS-SMART data products.
• Users shall have timely access to the scientifically useful data and analysis tools that are equivalent to the level available to the MMS-SMART science working team.
  
  

1. Users should refrain from the use of QuickLook plots, which are designed for event browsing, for scientific analysis or publication without express consent of the relevant Lead Co-Investigator. 
2. Users who are members of the MMS-SMART team shall not use Quicklook data plots for scientific analysis or publication without express consent of the appropriate instrument Lead Investigator. 
3. Users should contact the MMS-SMART Principal Investigator (PI) and the relevant lead investigators of the instrument or modeling group early in an analysis project to consult on the appropriate use of instrument data or model results. This will assure that MMS Science Working Team will stand behind any published uses of the data in refereed literature. 
4. Users who wish to publish results derived from MMS data should directly involve the MMS-SMART PI and/or Instrument Leads and team members as appropriate in the analysis and to offer co-authorship. Such co-authorship may be declined. 
5. Users who are members of the MMS-SMART science team shall offer co-authorship to the SMART PI and relevant Lead Investigators. Co-authorship may be declined. 
6. Users should heed the caveats of investigators as to the interpretation and limitations of data or model results. All important caveats should be included in the publication, even if co-authorship is declined. Data and model version numbers should also be specified, to assure that the MMS SWT will stand behind any published uses of the data in refereed literature. 
7. Users should acknowledge the sources of data used in all publications, presentations, and reports. Appropriate acknowledgement to institutions, personnel, and funding agencies should be given.
8. Users should provide the MMS-SMART PI and/or instrument PIs a copy of each manuscript that uses MMS-SMART data upon submission of that manuscript for consideration of publication, and upon publication, to transmit the citation to the PI and any other providers of data.
9. Users should widely distribute, to interested parties, their conference abstracts, presentations, and publication pre-prints. 
10. Users should make tools of general utility and/or value-added data products widely available to the community, and to notify the MMS-SMART PI of such utilities or products, having clearly labeled the product as to its origin. 

References: 

1. NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy, version 1.1, April 12, 2009, http://hpde.gsfc.nasa.gov/Heliophysics_Data_Policy_2009Apr12.pdf
2. NASA MMS Science Data Management Plan: SwRI Document 10160.18-PDMP-01 

AS APPROVED BY SWG (Date?):

The terms for distribution and use of the MMS data products are specified in the NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy document, and are summarized here in terms of the MMS mission. These guidelines govern both the production and distribution of scientific data sets by the MMS program, and also use of the MMS data by the science community and general public, and are summarized below:

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