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• Beginning no later than 6-months after instrument commissioning, MMS instrument teams will generate Level-2 science definitive, scientifically useful 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 data plots , designed for event browsing, and not for scientific analysis or publication, without express consent of the relevant Lead Co-Investigator. 
2. Users should contact the MMS-SMART Principal Investigator (PI) and the relevant lead co-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.) 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Users should widely distribute, to interested parties, their conference abstracts, presentations, and publication pre-prints. 
8. 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. 

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