The submission requirements for authors of the Geoscientific Data Publishing & Discovering (GDD) include authors’ undertakings and submitting materials.

Authors’undertaking

The authorswho are interested in contributing data to the GDDshall undertake the followings.

(1)Each author shall confirm that he/she owns the intellectual property rights to the database (dataset); all the authors of the contributions should bethe creators of the contribution and are responsible for the correctness, authenticity and reliability of the submitted content. The authorship and order of authors will not be changed once the publishing agreement is signed. The authors agree to share with the publisher the following copyrights: editorial right, right of reproduction in different media, rightsof data distribution,network communication,multilingual translationandprint within registered data publication scopes, as well as the right to transfer the abovesaid property rights. The right to publish the database (dataset) is exclusively owned by the data publisher.

(2)The author shall guarantee that the ownership of data is clear and the data owner entity is clear and free of disputes.

(3)Guarantee the authenticity and originalityof the scientific data. The author shall guarantee that the scientific data is true and not false, the contribution is the creative work achievements of the author, and references have been listed for all citations of arguments, data or results of other authors.

(4) The contribution is not made to more than one publisher. One database(dataset), except for the updated version, can be published only once.

(5) Contribution has no confidentiality requirement on the publication of the contribution. In case that confidentiality requirement is involved, the contribution shall be reviewed and approved by the author affiliation for publication by affixing an official seal on it.

Submitting materials

The author may choose to publish data paper(s) and entity data simultaneously or just publish the latter. The author shall submit both entity data and metadata, or all of the entity data, metadata and data paper(s).

(1)Metadata

Metadata is the key information for DOI registrationof the geoscientific data publishing. The author shall fully complete the metadata table item by item.

(2)Data paper

A data paper is an expository and argumentative article that describes the dataset (database) and argues for the creativity and reliability of the dataset. Hence, a data paper has the features of both expository prose and a research paper.

(3)Entity data

Entity data form the core content of data publishing. For GDD, data include scientific data in all earth science fields and show obvious diversity. Entity data are the essence of the GDDand the basis for geological innovation.