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Data Use And Attribution

Proper attribution is important. Permafrost observations are costly in time and money, and we want to ensure that contributors to CUSP receive attribution that acknowledges this cost in the form of citations.

As a CUSP user, it is your responsibility to make sure you are citing all the sources from which you have used data.

CUSP provides a citation tool that can export a BibTeX file based on your particular CUSP dataset after you have filtered, aggregated, or otherwise downselected from the raw release.

See the Caveats page before using CUSP in an analysis.

What To Cite

You must cite:

  1. The original datasets/publications behind the records used. Use the CUSP citation tool.
  2. The CUSP code repository: Schwenk, J. CUSP: CommUnity near-Surface Permafrost data synthesis. https://github.com/jonschwenk/cusp
  3. The CUSP dataset paper: [placeholder: CUSP dataset paper citation]

Export BibTeX For Your CUSP Subset

Once you have finalized your own version of CUSP, use this tool to generate the list of citations you need to include:

python -m cusp.citations --input path/to/your_cusp_table.csv --output references.bib

This works with tables that carry either:

  • source
  • aggregated_sources

The release also includes bibliography and source-reference files if you want to inspect provenance manually.