Acknowledge NSF Unidata

Software and technologies developed and distributed by the NSF Unidata Program Center are (with very few exceptions) Free and Open Source, and you can use them in your own work with no restrictions. In order to continue developing software and providing services to the NSF Unidata community, it is important that the NSF Unidata Program Center be able to demonstrate the value of the technologies we develop and services we provide to our sponsors — most notably the U.S. National Science Foundation. Including an acknowledgement in your publication or web site helps us do this.

It helps even more if we are aware of what you're doing. If you're using NSF Unidata technologies and citing them in a paper, poster, thesis, or other venue, we'd be grateful if you would let us know about it by sending a short message to support@unidata.ucar.edu. Thanks!

Use of an NSF Unidata Software Package

If your use of a software package created or distributed by NSF Unidata plays a significant role in your research or other activities, we would appreciate your inclusion of a simple acknowledgement of that use somewhere in your publication. An informal attribution might look something like:

Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) software from NSF Unidata was used in the analysis and visualization of the data.

or

This project took advantage of netCDF software developed by NSF Unidata ( http://doi.org/10.5065/D6H70CW6).

If you choose to provide a formal citation, we suggest the following format, based roughly on the American Meteorological Society's citation guide:

NSF Unidata, ( year): Package name version number [software]. Boulder, CO: UCAR / NSF Unidata Program Center. ( DOI or URL to software page)

Or, in a concrete example:

NSF Unidata, (2012): Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.1 [software]. Boulder, CO: UCAR / NSF Unidata. ( http://doi.org/10.5065/D6RN35XM)

(Be sure to update the version and year as appropriate for your use of the specific software package.)

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for NSF Unidata Software and Services

NSF Unidata has minted Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for the following NSF Unidata created software packages and cloud-based services. The DOIs are assumed to persist indefinitely, so they are preferable to using standard URLs in your citations.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for other NSF Unidata Offerings

If you have received an NSF Unidata Community Equipment Award grant, and would like to include acknowledgement of that support in a description of your project, feel free to include a citation using the following DOI:

An example citations:

NSF Unidata, (2017): NSF Unidata Community Equipment Awards [grant program]. Boulder, CO: UCAR / NSF Unidata. ( https://doi.org/10.5065/D6R49PJ0)

The work described here was supported in part by an NSF Unidata Community Equipment Award grant. For additional information see https://doi.org/10.5065/D6R49PJ0

Images from the NSF Unidata Web Site

You are welcome to use images displayed on the NSF Unidata web site. If you are moved to provide attribution, something like:

Image courtesy of NSF Unidata.

would be appreciated.