The success of international scientific cooperation programmes such as the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF) strongly depends on the exchange of scientific data and information.
Data sharing fosters the advancement of scientific knowledge and supports research on issues of economic and societal relevance. We therefore encourage the use of LWF data for scientific research and educational purposes. The provision of data requires an agreement outlining the terms and conditions governing the exchange of data and resulting products (e.g. publications) between the LWF programme and the data users. The LWF programme strongly encourages close collaboration between data users and the responsible LWF researchers.
- The use of data and data request and appropriate acknowledgement are regulated in the “Agreement on Use of LWF Data”.
- For Swiss national requests for LWF data, an online request form is available: https://webapps.wsl.ch/lwf-data-request-form/
- For international requests for LWF data, the terms and conditions of the “Intellectual Property and Publication Policy” of the UNECE/ICP Forests programme apply.
Citation Requirement ¶
Proper citation in scientific publications and appropriate acknowledgement in subsequent products are mandatory and considered a matter of professional ethics. Authors are requested to include the following statement in the Methods or Acknowledgements section of their publication:
"The evaluation was based on data collected by partners of the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research LWF, which is part of the UNECE Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests ICP Forests. Part of the data was co-financed by the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (Data achieved at ‘download date’). We are in particular grateful to X who provided the Z data."