Data Use Policy

The BASIN data provided on this site are freely available and were furnished by individual BASIN scientists who encourage their use.

Please kindly inform in writing (or e-mail) the appropriate BASIN scientist(s) of how you are using the data and of any publication plans. Please acknowledge the data source as a citation or in the acknowledgments if the data are not yet published.

If the BASIN Principal Investigators (PIs) feel that they should be acknowledged or offered participation as authors, they will let you know and we assume that an agreement on such matters will be reached before publishing and/or use of the data for publication. If your work directly competes with the PI's analysis they may ask that they have the opportunity to submit a manuscript before you submit one that uses unpublished data.

In addition, when publishing please acknowledge the agency that supported the research. Lastly, we kindly request that those publishing papers using BASIN data provide reprints to the PIs providing the data and to BASIN.