[LTER-im] Publisher location requested for data set DOI

[Hap Garritt]

Hi Wade et al. 

We have not experienced a publisher location request for any PIE LTER data citations, certainly doesn't seem necessary when a DOI is included. 

On another note, I noticed that GCE and a few other LTER sites, AND, SBC and MCR have managed to get their LTER site name included in the Data Portal "How to cite this data package". What did you all do to your EML to get the citation to include your site or did you have to make a request to Mark/Duane to include it. 

Thanks 
Hap 


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From: "Wade Sheldon" <sheldon at uga.edu> 
To: "LTER IM" <im at lternet.edu> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:59:17 AM 
Subject: [LTER-im] Publisher location requested for data set DOI 

Hi folks, 

A GCE PI encountered the following issue when citing a data set in an ESA journal submission using the recommended LTER Data Portal citation format. Has anyone experienced this before? Publisher location seems irrelevant for a digital asset and defeats the purpose of a DOI, so my inclination is to push back and ask the publisher to justify this request. I suspect it's just about filling in a field in their citation system. 

Any recommendations? 

Wade Sheldon 
GCE-LTER 



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Subject: how to cite GCE data sets 
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:46:36 -0600 
From: Pennings, Steven C <scpennin at Central.UH.EDU> 
To: 'Wade Sheldon' <sheldon at uga.edu> 



Hi Wade, 
I cited a GCE data set as recommended 

Li, S. 2016. Experimental wrack disturbance at four 

times during the growing season. Georgia Coastal 

Ecosystems LTER Project, Long Term Ecological 

Research Network, University of Houston, ?????. 

https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/0efb520e3772f0b97b560 

325853ebf32 

And the journal asked for "publisher location" where the question marks are located. Should this be "Athens, Georgia, USA"? 

Also, if this becomes a common request (in this case from a journal of the Ecological Society of America") then I wonder if it would make sense to change our standard citation format that we provide. 

Steve 

Steve Pennings 
John and Rebecca Moores Professor 
Department of Biology and Biochemistry 
University of Houston 
Houston TX 77204 
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