Geoscientific Data & Discovery Publishing Center (GDD) is based on the geological scientific data generated globally, establishing policies and systems for the scientific data publishing, absorbing the concepts and methods of international open data, and joint Digital Object Unique Identifier-DOI registration agencies to provide standard data reference formats and permanent access address for data references, doing publishing through the Internet platform, which combines innovation and advance.

GDD mainly includes data descriptor and entity data publishing. The data papers describe entity data and corresponding metadata information. The entity data includes common shared data such as geographic information, geologic maps, and databases, and also includes multiple data types, such as documents, archive records, data forms and other multimedia formed during geological work, various data-centric applications, database interface services, and typical data services.

Purpose of GDD：

Promote scientific data sharing, advance data intellectual property protection, and lead the internationalization of China's geological data.

What can GDD do

Provide data intellectual property protection for authors (data producers);

Provide more innovative outputs to authors (data producers);

Improve internationalized degree of data retrieval for authors (data producers);

Ensuring the network's origin rights for authors’ (data producers’) data.