IOP Publishing’s open access journal, Environmental Research Letters, is pleased to announce that it will now provide authors with the ability to publish raw data files alongside their article for free.
Yu Song et al. from Peking University, China, are the first authors to take advantage of this newly available option. In their paper, 'A new emission inventory for nonagricultural open fires in Asia from 2000 to 2009' the authors combine MODIS burned product (MCD45A1) with other data to produce a comprehensive dataset. The dataset presented in this work is being made available to download for free as supplementary material to the article and is available at http://www.iop.org/EJ/mmedia/1748-9326/5/1/014014/.
IOP Publishing is proud to offer the option to publish raw data alongside articles as another reason to publish in Environmental Research Letters. Being an open-access journal, this means that all researchers can access the data alongside the article for free.
Nicola Gulley, Editorial Director at IOP Publishing, said: "In an interdisciplinary research area such as environmental research, the ability to look at the underlying data has the potential to expand collaborations either through the use of different tools or by a better understanding of the results presented by giving a more holistic picture. As an open access journal Environmental Research Letters is well placed to make the supplementary data easily available to a very wide audience."
Environmental Research Letters will now offer all authors the option to publish their raw data as supplementary data material alongside their article if they wish to.