The creators of the IDALS database
recognize that electronic access to data products created as a result
of NASA sponsored research programs is crucial for the exchange of
scientific information between researchers and will ultimately lead
to maximum return on NASA's research intellectual investments. To
that end, we provide our published spectral data in a publicly
available and downloadable format, and we supply all users with
inventory lists of our laboratory spectral holdings. Use of spectral
data obtained from the public IDALS database website must be properly cited
(see instructions on How to Cite) but is
otherwise unrestricted.
For the roughly 75% of our data products which are currently unpublished
and pending analysis, we have also created an IDALS password-protected
database of downloadable files. Access to the IDALS password-protected
database is currently restricted to co-investigators on our laboratory
astrophysics grants. We are willing to open this password-protected
database to a limited number of new collaborators who
We welcome new collaborations with scientists from multiple disciplines, and will support any analyses made through these collaborations with as much detail about the laboratory measurements and/or astrophysical implications as possible. By issuing this statement, you the user are made aware that with regard to our unpublished data, we intend to protect our co-investigators from intellectual property theft by seeking legal counsel and that we share information with scientists who also protect competitively selected original ideas and agree to fair usage of any information or data products obtained from our sites.