MMS Data Rights and Rules for Data Use
The terms for distribution and use of the MMS data products are specified in the NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy document1, 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.2
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- NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy, version 1.1, April 12, 2009, http://hpde.gsfc.nasa.gov/Heliophysics_Data_Policy_2009Apr12.pdf
- NASA MMS Science Data Management Plan: SwRI Document 10160.18-PDMP-01
MMS Acknowledgement Template
“We are grateful for the dedicated efforts of the entire MMS mission team, including development, science operations, and the Science Data Center at the Univ. of Colorado. We especially benefitted from the efforts of … of ...."
An Example used by the FPI Team: This research was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) in association with NASA contract NNG04EB99C. Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) contributions to MMS FPI were supported by Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). We thank the entire MMS team and instrument leads for data access and support. The data presented in this paper are the L2 data of MMS and can be accessed from MMS Science Data Center (https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/).
Reminder: Please take care with references
In the excitement of a new data set and the haste for submitting publications, there can sometimes be inadequate attention to our obligation to perform a thorough literature search. It is important to slow down and carefully consider citations and an appropriately detailed background description before moving to submission. A particular debate is whether citing review or review-like articles is sufficient reference to all that came previously. In many minds that is not the case although others hold a different opinion. ACTION: For every publication you are included, please pay increased attention to the background section and throughout to ensure appropriate reference is made to the extensive work done on magnetic reconnection with the Polar, Geotail, Cluster, Wind, and THEMIS missions.
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