Geoscience Data Journal
The Geoscience Data Journal provides an open access platform where scientific data can be formally published, in a way that includes scientific peer-review.
An online-only journal, the Geoscience Data Journal publishes short data papers cross-linked to, and citing, datasets that have been deposited in approved data centres.
A data paper describes a dataset, giving details of its collection, processing, software, file formats etc, without the requirement of novel analyses or ground breaking conclusions. It allows the reader to understand the when, how and why data was collected and what the data-product is.