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You are free to develop your dataset in any way you choose. While use of character ontologies, taxonomic authorities and specimen databases is in general good practice and highly encouraged, MorphoBank does not mandate their use. How you conduct your research in your workspace is entirely up to you.  You can see published projects on our Browse Projects page.

Project summary information

It is important that as much information as possible about a project is provided before it is published. In addition to project preferences and review login information, the project information form contains fields for the following information that is used to display a summary of your project in the Browse Projects section of the site and on the Project Overview page:

• Title. The title of your project, not necessarily the same as your article's title.

• Abstract. The abstract for your project. This is often, but not necessarily, the same as that of your published article.

• Exemplar Media. The media file you would like to feature in your project summary.

• Journal title. If the project data serves as the basis of a published article, this and the following fields should be filled in with citation information.

• Journal url. Address of your published article online.

• Journal volume. The journal volume in which your article appears.

• Journal number. The journal number in which your article appears.

• Journal year. The year of the journal in which your article appears.

• Journal logo image. For journals already appearing in MorphoBank, a journal logo will automatically appear when the journal title is selected. If you are entering a new journal in MorphoBank, curators will add a journal logo at the time of project publication. Feel free to contact support to ask for the journal logo to be added to MorphoBank.

• Article authors. The list of article authors as it should appear in a citation.

• Article title. The article title as it should appear in a citation.

• Article pagination. The article pagination as it should appear in a citation.

Many of these fields are used on the project summary page when the project is published. If you fail to fill in these fields your summary page will be incomplete and will improperly cite your article. Be sure to fill out all fields fully and accurately.

Creating a project

You can create as many projects as you need; in general you should create a project for each discrete research problem or paper you are working on. Remember that workspaces are completely independent from one another and do not interact in any way. There is no sharing of data between project workspaces, and each workspace is only accessible to those to whom you explicitly grant access. If you have multiple workspaces with identical member lists and/or need of shared data, then you should consider consolidating them into a single project workspace.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and reuse of published data on MorphoBank is an important part of how science advances.  To this end MorphoBank encourages investigators to download and reuse/modify/expand or duplicate and reuse/modify/expand the results of prior investigators (which, of course, should be cited as is standard scientific practice).

If you find that you need to create many small matrices that could be considered subsets of a large matrix, we recommend that you create a single large matrix and use the partition feature to create subsets of characters or taxa from that matrix.

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Figure 3.1. Selecting the new project option.

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Creating a project

You can create as many projects as you need; in general you should create a project for each discrete research problem or paper you are working on. Remember that workspaces are completely independent from one another and do not interact in any way. There is no sharing of data between project workspaces, and each workspace is only accessible to those to whom you explicitly grant access. If you have multiple workspaces with identical member lists and/or need of shared data, then you should consider consolidating them into a single project workspace.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and reuse of published data on MorphoBank is an important part of how science advances.  To this end MorphoBank encourages investigators to download and reuse/modify/expand or duplicate and reuse/modify/expand the results of prior investigators (which, of course, should be cited as is standard scientific practice).

If you find that you need to create many small matrices that could be considered subsets of a large matrix, we recommend that you create a single large matrix and use the partition feature to create subsets of characters or taxa from that matrix.

To create a new project, login to MorphoBank and navigate to the My Projects section. You will see an orange "Create New Project" button at the top of the page.

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Figure 3.1. Selecting the new project option.

This will display a Project Info form, which includes fields for project title and abstract, publication information and settings for allowing anonymous reviewer access to your data. To start you need only to specify a title, you can fill in other details such as the journal name and the paper's abstract as your work advances towards publication. You may edit this information at any time, many users provide provisional information at the start. For publications with an active DOI, you can enter the DOI into the Article DOI box and click on Retrieve and all bibliographic information except for the Abstract will be automatically populate.

Project summary information

It is important that as much information as possible about a project is provided before it is published. In addition to project preferences and review login information, the project information form contains fields for the following information that is used to display a summary of your project in the Browse Projects section of the site and on the Project Overview page:

• Title. The title of your project, not necessarily the same as your article's title.

• Abstract. The abstract for your project. This is often, but not necessarily, the same as that of your published article.

• Exemplar Media. The media file you would like to feature in your project summary.

• Journal title. If the project data serves as the basis of a published article, this and the following fields should be filled in with citation information.

• Journal url. Address of your published article online.

• Journal volume. The journal volume in which your article appears.

• Journal number. The journal number in which your article appears.

• Journal year. The year of the journal in which your article appears.

• Journal logo image. For journals already appearing in MorphoBank, a journal logo will automatically appear when the journal title is selected. If you are entering a new journal in MorphoBank, curators will add a journal logo at the time of project publication. Feel free to contact support to ask for the journal logo to be added to MorphoBank.

• Article authors. The list of article authors as it should appear in a citation.

• Article title. The article title as it should appear in a citation.

• Article pagination. The article pagination as it should appear in a citation.

Many of these fields are used on the project summary page when the project is published. If you fail to fill in these fields your summary page will be incomplete and will improperly cite your article. Be sure to fill out all fields fully and accurately.

Types of Data You Can Deposit

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