The policy for proprietary period of the PIs at the moment is the following: raw data stored in the main IA2 archive have a proprietary period of one year. After this period, data will be accessible by everyone within the italian community; Reduced data stored at LSC in Monte Porzio and eventual mirrors have no expiration of the proprietary period. This means that whoever wants to use the data needs explicit permission of the PI. Registered users who have PI's permission to access the reduced data are allowed to retrieve the data through the LSC Data Repository.
The LBT Italian Coordination Facility encourages early exploitation of LBT data to produce publications rapidly. LBT Italia will contact PIs from time to time to offer help and receive news about the use of data, problems encountered and how to solve them.
Beside the general acknowledgement that is required for any publication produced with the use of LBT data:
The LBT is an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy and Germany. LBT Corporation partners are: The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona university system; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University, and The Research Corporation, on behalf of The University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia,
Italian scientist making use of reduced data from the LSC facility, are kindly requested to add a footnote acknowledging the support from LBT Italia, like:
We acknowledge the support from the LBT-Italian Coordination Facility for the execution of observations, data distribution and reduction
In addition, we ask you to consider the possibility to add as co-authors of papers based on LBT data some members of the italian team who carried out the observations and the reductions. This is of course only a suggestion, aimed at giving visibility to the people who do this obscure job, often well beyond their
duty, and give them an award that can be added to the curricula. All the PIs that would like to consider this suggestion can contact the LBT Italian Coordination Facility to have the list of suitable names in their case.