Submit a dataset

Datasets on aquatic resources, environments and the people connected to freshwater, brackishwater and marine ecosystems across Africa. Both raw, unanalysed data and analysed results are welcome — for example on resource status, exploitation, vulnerability to hazards, or coastal development.

• An abstract summarising the dataset and the project behind it
• The research objectives or problems the data addresses
• Materials and methods: study area, sampling design, and analysis if any
• Every metadata item the ROC asks for
• Original work, approved by all authors and their institutions
• Ethics compliance and any conflicts of interest declared

Already published elsewhere? Say so in a letter to the editor-in-chief at rocdatahub@ucc.edu.gh. Third-party material needs reproduction rights secured before you submit.

Spreadsheets

XLSX · XLS · CSV · ODS

Documents

DOCX · DOC · ODT · PDF · TXT

Structured data

JSON · GeoJSON · XML

Presentations

PPTX · PPT · ODP

Figures

High resolution, from the source program — TIFF, EPS, PDF or SVG. Avoid JPEG.

List everyone who qualifies, individually. Groups and organisations — community associations, NGOs, agencies — can be authors too. To qualify, an author must have contributed significantly to the study design or to data acquisition, analysis or interpretation; approved the submission; and agreed to be accountable for their part of the work.

Every accepted dataset is published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0. If you need a different licence, apply to the editor-in-chief at rocdatahub@ucc.edu.gh. Personal data is handled under the CCM data policy.

To submit, register, verify your email and sign in. Fill in the five stages and submit; your co-authors confirm by email, the editorial office checks the dataset, and an editor reviews it before it is published with a DOI. Sign in at any time to follow its progress or to submit new datasets.