The precondition to submit a data description manuscript for publication in Wind Energy Science (WES) and its scientific discussion forum Wind Energy Science Discussions (WESD) is that the data sets referenced in the manuscript are submitted to a long-term repository according to FAIR principles.
The following basic criteria have to be fulfilled under all circumstances:
- Persistent identifier: the data sets must have a digital object identifier (DOI).
- Open access: the data sets have to be available free of charge and without any barriers.
- Liberal copyright: anyone must be free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the data sets as long as they give credit to the original authors (equivalent to the Creative Commons Attribution License).
- Long-term availability: the repository has to meet the highest standards to guarantee long-term availability of the data sets, permanent access and cyber security.
Data centres supporting WES criteria
Authors are asked to check whether their data centre fulfils the criteria above. The topic editors will carefully consider – for each article submitted – whether the data repository can be considered qualified. If they come to a negative conclusion, they will discuss this issue with the authors before publishing the manuscript as a discussion paper in WESD.
To give some examples we have listed alphabetically some data centres that have already been used for published WESD articles. Please note that the purpose of this list is to offer examples; it does not represent a complete list: