

Copyright and ownership of the data remain with the data creator and do not pass to the Scratchpad project. The Scratchpad project provides the computer infrastructure and users provide the content which, by default, is published under a Creative Commons by-sa-nc licence. Scratchpads are a system of hosted web sites supporting data sharing within the broad field of natural history development which is currently funded by the EU FP7 project ViBRANT ( Project No. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) can be signed between Scratchpads and your Institution.īelow you can find a small paragraph that can be included in the Data management/sharing policy section of your grants:.A letter of intent to support the project can be provided.Documentation on the added value of Scratchpads to the research community.

Documentation on the state of the art regarding virtual research environments.

