Guidelines for Ethical Use of this Repository

This Repository contains data collected at great financial cost and often at some personal risk. Some of the data have been the basis of the publications cited in the metadata, but other data have not yet found their way into the literature. Some data are freely available to all users, and some data are restricted to select users with accounts on the repository. These considerations impose serious constraints on potential users of the repository. Here are some guidelines.

1. Publicly accessible data can be used without permission. Common courtesy requires that, at minimum, you contact the data owner to indicate that you intend to use the data and to ask what sort of formal acknowledgment would be appropriate. In many cases offer of co-authorship would be appropriate.

2. Restricted access data requires the data owner’s permission to use it. You must have an account on the repository and contact the data owner to gain access. Chances of gaining access specific data may be improved by adding your data to the Repository and granting access to those with whom you wish to exchange data. At minimum, an offer of co-authorship be made to the data owner.

3. Use of data from this Repository should be accompanied by the following general acknowledgment. “Data used in this research was obtained from the Electronic Tagging Data Repository https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/tag-data/ maintained by the University of Hawaii Pelagic Fisheries Research Program supported under cooperative agreement number NA17RJ1230 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration”,

4. Violation of these simple guidelines has consequences.