This form is to facilitate data sharing between BCSS and any researchers, private companies, government and non-government institutions. Depending on the data request, BCSS reserves the right to ask for co-authorship and or collaboration on the project output. It is required that the requestor acknowledges BCSS as the owner of the data on project outputs.

All databases are individually DOI-protected (https://datacite.org/) and once accessed/used must be cited and mentioned in relevant public forum materials (Methods, Acknowledgments, etc) as indicated in the “Reference_Citation (all)” section of the dataset.

Any other use of the datasets and/or Observatory materials must appear in public forum as follows: “Material provided by the BCSS Ocean Observatory – Bazaruto Archipelago_https://bcssmz.org/ocean-observatory-mozambique/_(registry: 002/IICDTI/BCSS/MCTES/2023)_DOI: https://doi.org/10.82174/bcssmz.ocean.observatory.data.repository)”