Research data are elementary for the earth sciences. Working with data has become a focal point in sciences in the last years.
Access, data publication and re-use are the important keywords.
Blog AlbertOpen provides information on current developments
In the 'Principles for the Handling of Research Data' the Alliance of German Science Organisations adopted elementary agreements
re3data.org helps you to find an appropriate Data Repository. Search within 700 records:
The GFZ serves access to scientific data in different ways.
Starting in 2012 the library offers some formats for data publishing which where not available up to now. Following the standard in scientific text publications all data sets get a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) assigned, can be cited and are publicly and persistently available.
Furthermore, the journals: Earth System Science Data (ESSD), Earth and Space Science, Geoscience Data Journal or Scientific Data offer an alternative way to publish data.