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                   * * * ISDC News 07-JAN-2015 * * *
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New INTEGRAL Data Distribution Policy for AO-12
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In the Announcement of Opportunity 12 (AO-12) the data access rights
policy has changed with respect to previous AOs. From AO-12 and
onwards, data or science rights to the targets or science in the field
of view (FOV) of the instruments proposed by the PIs and accepted by
the TAC will be allocated to these PIs with the usual 1-year
proprietary period.

If the PI is from a country other than the Russian Federation, the
rest of the field will be made public. This holds both for normal
and Target of Opportunity (ToO) observations.Since INTEGRAL has
coded mask instruments, it means that all the data are available to
the public. Following the one-year data rights proprietary period, all
data will be made normally publicly available through the public
archives, i.e. the data are freed from any data rights.

If the PI is from the Russian Federation a similar policy is followed,
except that the rest of the field will be open only to scientists
from the Russian Federation currently working at Russian Federation
scientific institutes. Data access for these scientists will be
provided by the Russian Science Data Centre for INTEGRAL located at
the Space Research Institute in Moscow.

ISDC and ISOC have prepared a novel interface to download these data,
ensuring that the guest observer is informed of the data policies and
accepts them before downloading the data.

We invite you to make use of this interface and to report any
suggestion to improve it to the INTEGRAL Helpdesk.
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