Data from the SITES Data Portal must be properly cited and acknowledged.
SITES data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Therefore, users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the SITES data license, and indicate if changes were made when using SITES data.
SITES metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Therefore, users are allowed to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the metadata in any medium or format, with no conditions.
Citation
Each dataset has a specific citation, similar to that of a publication citation. The citation is provided on the dataset metadata page.
Example
Erken Laboratory (2023). Meteorological data from Erken, Malma island, 1988-10-13–2022-12-30 [Data set]. Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES). https://hdl.handle.net/11676.1/DM2MafGWvcD5Pcd9N7Wq3fhT
The persistent identifier (PID) will always lead you back to the metadata page where you are able to download the data object again or check for updates.
You may also use or link to pictures and visualizations obtained from the SITES Data Portal if you add the link to the original and the text "SITES, licensed under CCBY" followed by the link to the original source.
Acknowledgement
We suggest that you inform the data providers when the data is used for publications and that you offer them the possibility to comment and/or offer them co-authorship or acknowledgement in the publication when this is justified by the added value of the data for your results.
Any publication using SITES data must include the following statement in the acknowledgement: "This [study/report/dataset/etc.] has been made possible by data provided by the Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES)."