ACTRIS data is freely available for non-commercial use. Use of these data implies an agreement to reciprocate. Institutes making similar measurements are strongly encouraged to make their own data available to the scientific community in a complete and easily accessible form. Modellers are encouraged to make available to the community upon request; their tools used in the interpretation of ACTRIS data.

Types of data provided

• Type 1: The ACTRIS data

  Data are funded and produced within the context of the ACTRIS project. Every dataset created within ACTRIS is owned by the ACTRIS partner(s) who created this dataset, and the ACTRIS data policy can be found here. A description of ACTRIS data is provided in the "ACTRIS Data management Plan".

• Type 2: Other data available through the portal

  Data are archived and owned by other organisations or data providers and are hosted at other databases. Type 2 data are provided with the permission of each organisation or data provider contributing to the data archive. Each dataset of type II may have its own data policy that will supersede the ACTRIS data policy.

Conditions of use

Users should:

• Contact the organisation or data provider(s) responsible for the particular measurement to verify proper interpretation of the data in the context of the intended use.
• Grant data provider(s) the opportunity to review the use of the data and conclusions drawn from it.
• Invite the data provider(s) at an early stage to be co-author on any papers written if their data is essential to the work or an important result or conclusion has been obtained using their data

Acknowledge ACTRIS using the following citation: "The research leading to the these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654109."