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The collaboration request is needed to grant permission to the external projects to access our Confluence site and the internal documentation or to gain access to a non-released E3SM data. The collaboration request should agree to acknowledge E3SM for using it's data or code, it may ask for any additional support, or to access E3SM data that is not yet available to the public. The collaboration should include the agreement on possible joint publication from the research, and should specify expected timeline for all publications from this research and possibly agree to include some E3SM authors.
External External projects like ecosystem projects, SFA's that use E3SM data or code, or other collaborators are expected to submit a collaboration request.
Requesting Collaboration and Approval Process
The prospectus collaborator should submit a collaboration request by email to E3SM Executive Committee (EC) (e3sm-exec@llnl.gov). If the EC has no problem with the agreements, then it will be put on Confluence and an email will be sent to the leadership team to ask for comments within a week. If there are no concerns from the leadership team, then the agreements are automatically approved after one week.