Submit Data to PANGAEA

Welcome to the PANGAEA data submission system. We highly appreciate that you want to archive and publish your data with PANGAEA. PANGAEA accepts data from a wide range of disciplines from earth and life sciences.

Please make sure your submission complies to our Authors Guides. These guidelines describe in detail the requirements that data and relevant metadata will have to satisfy in order to be considered for publication in PANGAEA. In the following section you find a set of options to support the necessary preparations.

Note that when completing our data submission form, communication with our editorial team will continue in the PANGAEA issue tracker. This platform will also allow to provide and edit meta-information and uploading data files. For more details about the submission workflow see our live demonstration below.

Please note: All data and metadata are quality checked, harmonized, and processed for machine readability, which allows efficient and reliable re-usage of your data. Depending on the extent and complexity of your data submission the editorial process and minting of DOI names for submission not affiliated to our hosts, project partners and partners (front-offices) might therefore take up to several months. If you want to know more on how to become a front-office partner please contact us. Due to the high volume of submissions, it is unfortunately not possible to answer questions about the current processing status.

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Before submitting your data you need to log in or sign up:

Do you need more information about data submissions to PANGAEA?

You can consult our user documentation (Wiki) for general and specific details about data submissions to PANGAEA anytime. You will find many relevant topics such as the following:

The submission process and minimum required metadata,
Structural requirements of submitted data (see also our note on our helpful data templates below),
Required details concerning the sampling or observations (e.g. Events),
Tips about writing a descriptive data abstract.

We have also created a set of best practice manuals and templates for submissions to help our data authors provide the necessary contextual information and data in accordance with our guidelines and requirements. One can choose between the rather generic commented template for environmental field observations and various discipline specific manuals & templates for e.g. biological data, chemical data and many more.

If you are more the audio-visual type, you can also check out the relevant video recordings about data submission and best practice material from our training workshops on our Youtube channel.

You are also warmly invited to join one of our bi-annual PANGAEA Community Workshops taking place usually around November (Data submission) and May (data search & retrieval). Stay tuned via the PANGAEA news or our training mailing list if you don't want to miss one of them.

Benefits and Details

Check Benefits. Published data are fully citable and can be cross-referenced with journal articles – more...

Long term preservation of data. PANGAEA is member of the World Data System (WDS) of the International Science Council.
Quality assurance on metadata, such as citation, references, geo-location, and standard parameter vocabularies.
Reliable identification and access with a DOI name for each data supplement.
Pre-publication, password protected access to data supplements for journal editors in support to the peer-review process.
Minimum formatting requirements from the authors.
Direct communication with authors regarding changes to data and metadata, e.g. unit conversions, taxonomy updates.
Open access to data in several widely accepted machine-readable formats.
Choice of several Creative Commons licenses to allow scientific reuse.
If you log in with your ORCID ID or add the ID to your PANGAEA user profile, authorship for your data publications is automatically assigned in ORCID.

Check Data preparation and quality control. We will be in direct contact with you during preparation and archiving of your data – more...

The PANGAEA data editorial ensures the integrity and authenticity of your data. Data might be submitted in the authors format and will be converted to the final import and publication format. The PANGAEA editors will check the completeness and consistency of metadata and data. Our editors are scientists from the earth and life sciences. We may identify potential problems with your data (e.g. outliers). Nevertheless, we will only take full responsibility for the technical quality. You will be responsible for the scientific quality of your data (e.g. the validity of used methods). After data have been archived you will receive a DOI name and you are requested to proof-read before the final version is published. In case your data are supplementary to a journal article you should reference the data in the article. In addition our web services allow for embedding data references dynamically on the article splash page (example). In case there is a moratorium on your data you can ask for access constraints.

Check Costs. PANGAEA can be used free of charge. Nevertheless, we appreciate any possible financial support – more...

PANGAEA is archiving and publishing data according to the Open Access Model. Basic operation is covered through public funding, but we have to seek for additional funds, in particular for preparing and archiving new data. In case data are submitted through a project which has publication costs as part of the funding, PANGAEA would appreciate a financial contribution of 500.– € (net) for a data submission (e.g. at the DFG as part of the costs for open access publications). Other forms of funded collaborations can be negotiated. Please, contact us for further information and invoicing.

Live demonstration

Submitting data to PANGAEA is rather easy, all you need is your data, some additional information called metadata, and the willingness to open up your data to the world. PANGAEA is a fully curated data repository, so once you take the initial step by uploading your data, experienced data curators are going to help you personally through the further submission process. If you publish and long term archive your data with PANGAEA, they will become findable, accessible, inter-operable and reusable following the FAIR principles.

If you have any questions or comments on the data submission process, please contact us.