The DIII-D National Program is a multi—institutional collaboration. In addition, the DIII—D Program extends collaborations and outreach to national and international facilities and organizations to carry out the scientific research called for in the DIII—D Program objectives.
Collaborators are offered full access to DIII-D data as it is collected and analyzed. However, with these privileges come the responsibility for collaborators to ensure that the data used are correct and are correctly interpreted and to ensure that appropriate credit for providing measurements and analysis are given.
The following agreement is intended to help avoid misunderstandings over these responsibilities and avoid potential loss of data access:
1) No collaborator will be given direct access to unpublished DIII-D data until this agreement has been signed.
2) Presentations at conferences and workshops of papers that make substantial use of unpublished DIII-D results will be coordinated and approved by the DIII-D Director or his designee. For major conferences, a rehearsal presentation to DIII-D peers is normally expected.
3) The DIII-D program has a technical review process for all papers. Papers by General Atomics (GA) researchers must be issued as a GA-A report. Collaborators' papers relating to programmatic results must also publish their papers as GA-A reports. Such papers will be published with DIII-D National Fusion Facility in the journal masthead. Researchers who develop specialized diagnostics or subsystems or carry out specialized analysis with their individual diagnostics or modeling codes, normally submit such papers under their institution's DOE guidelines with their institution in the journal masthead. These papers are also to proceed through DIII-D Program peer review, called "courtesy review" before submission to journals. The DIII-D Director is responsible to assure that publications are not unreasonably withheld or delayed.
4) GA's role in operating the DIII-D National Program for DOE includes the contractual responsibility for technical quality and to disseminate knowledge to the public and the national collaborators. This responsibility is met by posting GA-A reports, after they have cleared DOE review, on the DIII-D publications web site. For papers copyrighted at a collaborator's institution, normally the paper is posted on the collaborator's web site and linked to the GA DIII-D server in a timely manner, or, if the collaborator agrees, the paper will be posted on the DIII-D publications web site.
5) If a computer account is required on a General Atomics Fusion Group system, then the collaborator must contact the User Service Center and sign the "Computer Usage Policies and Procedures and User Responsibilities" document before an account can be issued.
In addition, some general data analysis routines (e.g., GAPROFILES) make use
of Atomic Data and Atomic Structure (ADAS) data. ADAS users must abide by
rules established in the GA-ADAS Project Agreement executed on February 1,
1999. The primary rules for data users are:
1) Publications using results from ADAS should identify the ADAS database by name and include a reference stating that: "The originating developer of ADAS is the JET Joint Undertaking."
2. ADAS programs, subroutines or data sets may not be transferred to anyone outside the DIII-D Program without the express written permission of the owner of that program, subroutine or data set.