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Forest Service Research & Development (FS R&D) has long recognized the usefulness and importance of archiving and sharing the research data it generates. This recognition has been expressed in Research Station Quality Assurance (QA) Plans, the national QA Implementation Plan, and the Forest Service Manual. The FS Research Data Archive provides an infrastructure and the resources to implement sharing and preserving our research data.

There are both short-term and long-term reasons for archiving research data. Short-term in relation to what needs to be done to have the Archive and its constituent data sets be useful today; long-term in relation to preserving that usefulness decades and centuries into the future. The idea of thinking decades and centuries into the future is important for an organization that focuses on forests.

The Archive has already benefited from insights offered by Station researchers. We hope that if you have ideas for improving the Archive you will share them with us. We want the Archive to be as useful as possible to you and the research communities of which you are a part. We are also interested in having the Archive be friendly to the non-research community. Please contact the Archive team if you have any comments or suggestions.

Metrics

Total data publications1063
Archive-hosted data960
Externally hosted data103
Downloads of Archive-hosted data101518
Referrals to external repositories6413
Authors1977
Funders381

FS Experimental Forest & Range (EFR) publication metrics

Total data publications257
Archive-hosted data221
Externally hosted data36
Downloads of Archive-hosted data9130
Referrals to external repositories369
To see detailed EFR metrics, click here.

Joint Fire Science Program publication metrics

Total data publications218
Archive-hosted data190
Externally hosted data28
Downloads of Archive-hosted data7637
Referrals to external repositories229

Top 10 funders

Publication Count
RMRSUSDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station403
NRSUSDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station253
JFSPJoint Fire Science Program218
USFSUSDA Forest Service215
PNWUSDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station107
SRSUSDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station91
ALWRIAldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute71
PSWUSDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station69
SERDPStrategic Environmental Research and Development Program57
NSFNational Science Foundation55