cc: philtransb date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:08:08 +0100 from: philtransb subject: RE: Briffa et al (Phil Trans B 2008) to: Keith Briffa Dear Keith, As I do not have the contact details of your co-authors, may I ask that you, as lead author, request the required data? Again, the data required is below: Would you therefore please provide me with either a URL or the complete tree ring measurement data sets in digital form for all data sets discussed in Briffa et al 2008, including Yamal, Tornetrask, Taymyr, Bolshoi Avam and Finnish Lapland, together with digital versions of the individual reconstructions referred to in Briffa et al 2008, including, without limitation, the reconstructions for each of the above sites and the composite regional reconstructions referred to in the article. This information is necessary to "verify the conclusion of the article". Our policy states that "As a condition of acceptance authors agree to honour any reasonable request by other researchers for materials, methods, or data necessary to verify the conclusion of the article". Therefore, somehow we need to make this data available. Many thanks, Claire Claire Rawlinson Commissioning Editor Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B) Tel: +44 (0)207 451 2602 Fax: +44 (0)20 7976 1837 Email: Claire.Rawlinson@royalsociety.org Phil Trans B website: http://publishing.royalsociety.org/philtransb Royal Society Publishing - informing the science of the future ******************** -----Original Message----- From: Keith Briffa [mailto:k.briffa@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 04 August 2008 15:57 To: philtransb Subject: RE: Briffa et al (Phil Trans B 2008) Claire see http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/melvin/PhilTrans2008/ I am not at liberty to release the raw tree-ring measurement data underlying these results as these are the property of the my other co authors (and used with permission here) and requests for these should be addressed directly to them. cheers Keith At 14:50 04/08/2008, you wrote: >Dear Professor Briffa, > >I am writing with regard to the email received below. Please can you >let me know where this data has been made available? > >Sincerely, > >Claire Rawlinson >Publishing Editor >Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Proc. R. Soc. B) >Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological >Sciences (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B) > >Tel: +44 (0)207 451 2602 >Fax: +44 (0)20 7976 1837 >Email: >Claire.Rawlinson@royalsociety.org > >Proceedings B website: >http://publishing.royalsociety.org/procee dingsb >Phil Trans B website: >http://publishing.royalsociety.org/philtr ansb > >Royal Society Publishing - informing the science of the future >******************** > >From: Steve McIntyre [mailto:stephen.mcintyre@utoronto.ca] >Sent: 18 July 2008 02:36 >To: philtransb >Cc: Keith Briffa >Subject: Briffa et al (Phil Trans B 2008) > >Dear Sirs, >Your policy on data availability as stated >at: >http://publishing.royal society.org/index.cfm?page=1684#question10 >states: >As a condition of acceptance authors agree to honour any reasonable >request by other researchers for materials, methods, or data >necessary to verify the conclusion of the article. > >Supplementary data up to 10Mb is placed on the Society's website >free of charge and is publicly accessible. Large datasets must be >deposited in a recognised public domain database by the author prior >to submission. The accession number should be provided for inclusion >in the published article. > >Briffa et al failed to comply with your requirement that "large >datasets must be deposited in a recognised public domain database by >the author prior to submission" and your editorial staff and >reviewers failed to ensure that the article included an accession >number for such deposit. > >In particular, Briffa et al. 2008 discussed the following tree ring >measurement data sets which have not been archived at the >International Tree Ring Data Bank or other public domain data base >(other than a small subset of the Tornetrask data set.) Would you >therefore please provide me with either a URL or the complete tree >ring measurement data sets in digital form for all data sets >discussed in Briffa et al 2008, including Yamal, Tornetrask, Taymyr, >Bolshoi Avam and Finnish Lapland, together with digital versions of >the individual reconstuctions referred to in Briffa et al 2008, >including, without limitation, the reconstructions for each of the >above sites and the composite regional reconstructions referred to >in the article. This informaiton is necessary to "verify the >conclusion of the article". > >Yours truly, >Stephen McIntyre > > > > >****************************************************************************** > >This email is sent on behalf of The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House >Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. > >You should carry out your own virus check before opening any >attachment. 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