<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-im"><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hmm, makes me wonder if it's worth a concerted (short) effort to ask some pointed questions of the IEEE DataPort folks. There is a contact person given, a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Melissa Handa....</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">-Jon<br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">******************************************<br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Seems they are taking a lead from ICPSR where access is also by membership and it can cost to deposit data.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
</span><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">But
only kind of. ICPSR puts massive amounts of work into the curation of
the data they charge for. If you just want to upload some data yourself
(as is the case
for DataPort – data becomes available immediately after submission) you
can do this for free (and have it freely accessible) through OpenICSPR
or many other services like Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse, figshare. The
only selling point appears to be the high size
limit of 2TB and the name.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I agree with Megan that this is not good.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Sebastian</span></p><br clear="all"><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This is a problem: “You must be an IEEE Dataport Subscriber to access these files.”<br>
(source: <a href="https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/sar-ship-dataset-detection-discrimination-and-analysis" target="_blank">
https://ieee-dataport.org/<wbr>documents/sar-ship-dataset-<wbr>detection-discrimination-and-<wbr>analysis</a>)
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">More bad news imoho follows… (source:
<a href="https://ieee-dataport.org/faq/how-do-i-become-ieee-dataport-beta-tester" target="_blank">
https://ieee-dataport.org/faq/<wbr>how-do-i-become-ieee-dataport-<wbr>beta-tester</a>)
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“All
beta testers will receive a coupon code for FREE subscriber access to
all IEEE DataPort Datasets (regular price: $40/month).</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All beta testers will receive a coupon code for a FREE Open Access Dataset upload (regular price: $1,950/dataset).
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All IEEE DataPort users may upload standard (non-Open Access) datasets for FREE.”</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m
sorry but I just see this as yet another was for them to up
subscription charges to libraries and/or pass the buck to authors while
getting priority access, if not ownership,
of the data. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Not. Cool.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"> </p>
-Megan <br><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial"></font></font></font></div>