As
a service to the scientific community,
TreeBASE offers peer-reviewed journals the
ability to provide their readership with electronic
access to the data presented in their publications.
Everything
from DNA alignments to morphological matrices
represent hypotheses of homology that are critical
to phylogenetic research, and must be made freely
available to the scientific community. Likewise, in
order to better evaluate submitted manuscripts,
journal editors and referees need access to the
data used in a paper under review.
Authors
who have submitted their data to TreeBASE can
provide a P.I.N. to the editor and referees of
their paper in review. This P.I.N. gives access to
submitted data that are otherwise not available to
the public.
If
you are a journal editor or referee, enter the name
and P.I.N. of the submitting author in the fields
below, then click the button. Note that the
submitting author with TreeBASE may not be the same
as the corresponding author for the manuscript --
the corresponding author should provide the
appropriate name as well as the P.I.N..
The
reviewer is obliged to keep these data confidential
and must not retain them after completing his or
her report to the journal editor. The reviewer must
not use this data for the purposes of his or her
research until and unless the paper under review
has been published and the data have been made
available to the general public. The reviewer must
keep the P.I.N. confidential.