Citing ARM Data Using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs): How and Why

Category: Infrastructure & Outreach

To facilitate citing the ARM data sets in journals and articles, the ARM Data Archive, in collaboration with DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), established a DOI service for the ARM data sets. This allows the users to more directly cite the exact ARM data that they have used in their research. This DOI service also allows the future data users and the ARM Facility to easily track the data used in various articles.

The ARM DOIs are currently published on the ARM datastream web pages and in the Archive user interfaces. The relevant DOIs are sent as part of the data order notification email. Typically DOIs are assigned to individual objects (report or data table), but for ARM data sets, these DOIs are assigned at the ARM data product level, which eliminates the need for creating millions of DOIs for all the data files and also helps the users to cite ARM data with a few DOIs. To cite ARM data, users should include a combination of information in the citations: ARM DOIs, data collected location(ARM site and facility), date range of the data used in their study, and the date downloaded from the ARM Archive. The ARM infrastructure team is currently developing various citation strategies with DOIs and seeks input from the users to improve the strategies.

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