Welcome to the peer-sharing community for scientific samples. Completing the sample description template will take you just 25-30 minutes based on the data in your lab notebook.Optional information is indicated with the words "optional information".Clarifications are marked with a / slash before and after the brief expDon’t hesitate to drop us a message ([email protected]) if you find anything unclear in this template.The sample description is organized to cover the following information.Author information Bibliographical informationSample informationDissemination informationReferences, Figures and AcknowledgementsOkay, let's get started!1. Author InformationCorresponding sample author/provider name--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider affiliation--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider email--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author name--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  3rd sample author name--> Enter text here: 3rd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  4th sample author name--> Enter text here: 4th sample author name--> Enter text here:  2. Bibliographical informationSample title/ Choose a title that emphasizes the nature and main features of your sample. For example, “Nanocrystalline silicon oxynitride thin film forphotovoltaic application”. /--> Enter text here: Keywords/ Mention keywords so that other scientists can find your sample more easily. /--> Enter text here: Open access license for published sample description/ Indicate under which open access license you wish to publish your sample description. (Note that the physical sample will be shared according to your preferred Material Transfer Agreement.) Please choose one option./     CC BY     CC BY-NC-SAOriginal research article / Specify your original research article that first mentioned your sample, so adopters can reference both your sample description and youroriginal research article. You can use the DOI or a traditional reference. /--> Enter text here: 3. Sample InformationAbstract/ The abstract should indicate the nature of the sample; provide information on its main properties, and describe why it may be useful to other scientists. The first lines of the abstract are used as a compact display of the sample description. /--> Enter text here: Introduction--> Enter text here, optional information:Sample Preparation Method--> Enter text here: Sample Properties--> Enter text here: Practical details--> Enter text here, optional information:Importance of this sample for further scientific achievements--> Enter text here: 4. Dissemination ConditionsNumber of available physical samples/ Mark number of available samples. Please choose one option./     1     2     3     4     5+Location (city, country) of sample--> Enter text here:Internal storage number of sample/ Documenting your internal storage number helps you finding the sample quickly when requested by other researchers. Your internal storage number will not be included in the published version of the description. /--> Enter text here:Sample return conditions/ How should the adopter proceed with your sample after experiments are completed. Please choose one option. /    Sample may be kept by adopter    Sample must be returned to providerInstruction for Use/ Is there specific instruction which the adopter should be aware of before using the sample (e.g. “For wet chemical analysis chips have to be prepared by turning or milling of the sample surface.)? /--> Enter text here, optional informationMaterial Transfer Agreement (MTA)/ You can either apply your own Material Transfer Agreement under which you want to disseminate your sample, or choose the propose Science Common Material Transfer Agreement. Please choose one option. /    Science Common MTA Open Use 2.0    Custom Material Transfer Agreement5. References, Figures and AcknowledgementsReferences/ Enter references related to the creation of this sample using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the reference(recommended) or manually mentioning the author's names, the journal/book volume and page as well as the publication year. We'll do the final formatting for you! /--> Enter text here:  Figures & figure captions/ At least one figure is required in order to publish a sample description. Please add the figure number and caption here. /--> Enter text here: Grant number/ Grant number of funder of the research project the sample belongs to. / --> Enter text here, optional information:Acknowledgements--> Enter text here, optional information:Notes/ Use this field to convey any additional information useful for other researchers, e.g.: “This sample was presented at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2016 at Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.”/--> Enter text here, optional information:Congratulations!You just completed your sample description.Please export this document as .docx and send your files to our editorial office at [email protected]. Your sample description will be reviewed and assigned with a permanent identifier  DOI within 3 days.

Why creating a written sample sharing seal of commitment?Scientific samples play an important role in the advancement in the chemical and materials sciences. Extraodinary result are being manifested in the physical samples genered during the study. We also aim to facilitate compliance with research funder and institution requirements to disseminate and share all scientific elements generated during the study. To help accomplish this we are suggesting a seal of commitment that can be easily adopted by supporting researchers. Establishing this sample sharing seal of commitment we hope to contribute to a collaborative research ecosystem where samples from experiments are openly accessible to make research more time-efficient and foster the advancement of knowledge.encourage publication of more open and reproducible researchgive credit to researchers who synthesise innovative samples increase growth and innovation in research sample sharingfacilitate adoption of samples for new experimentsaccelerate transfer of innovative samples between basic and applied researchCreating this sample sharing seal of commitment we hope to contribute to a collaborative research ecosystem where samples from experiments are openly accessible to make research more time-efficient and foster the advancement of knowledge.We hereby invite every interessted researchers to share her or his thoughts on the sharing of scientific samples. Please don't hesitate to ammend or change this document and contribute to an sampling sharing seal of commitment for more open and efficient science. Sample Sharing Seal of CommitmentA submission to ajournal or a presentation of a poster under this policy implies that samples described in the manuscript will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality. All samples on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be available to readers. The samples are available in the Sample of Science database. Persistent identifiers (DOIs and accession numbers) for relevant samples are provided in the paper.Sample AvailabilityMy original article includes a sample availability statement. The sample availability statement includes information on where samples supporting the results reported in the article can be found including. By data we mean the minimal dataset that would be necessary to interpret, replicate and build upon the findings reported in the article. We recognise it is not always possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be compromised, and in such instances data availability should still be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for access. The sample availability statements may take the following form:Descriptions of samples generated during and/or analysed during the current study are published in Sample of Science database and the samples are available [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO SAMPLE].Published example: Descriptions of samples generated during and/or analysed during the current study are published in Sample of Science database and the samples are available https://doi.org/10.21558/sos-2016-0003.References:The draft version of this sample sharing policy is gratefully inspired and based on the SpringerNature Research Data Policy 3 (available here).Participating Authors:Felix Evert, Sample of Science, [email protected], 12/9/16Want to learn more?Please don't hesitate to reach out to me at [email protected] or reach me on my direct line: +49 (0) 162 276 2928.My best,Felix

Sample Sharing Committment 1A submission to the journal under this seal of commitment implies that samples described in the manuscript will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality. All samples on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be available to readers. The samples are available in the Sample of Science database. Persistent identifiers (DOIs and accession numbers) for relevant samples are provided in the paper.Data availabilityMy original article includes a sample availability statement. The sample availability statement includes information on where samples supporting the results reported in the article can be found including. By data we mean the minimal dataset that would be necessary to interpret, replicate and build upon the findings reported in the article. We recognise it is not always possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be compromised, and in such instances data availability should still be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for access. Data Availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple datasets): The samples generated during current study are available in the Sample of Science portal, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO SAMPLES].More examples of template data availability statements, which include examples of openly available and restricted access datasets, are available:Data availability statementsThe journal also requires that authors cite any publicly available data on which the conclusions of the paper rely in the manuscript. Data citations should include a persistent identifier (such as a DOI) and should ideally be included in the reference list. Citations of datasets, when they appear in the reference list, should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite and follow journal style. Dataset identifiers including DOIs should be expressed as full URLs.Research data and peer reviewPeer reviewers are encouraged to check the manuscript’s Data availability statement, where applicable. They should consider if the authors have complied with the journal’s policy on the availability of research data, and whether reasonable effort has been made to make the data that support the findings of the study available for replication or reuse by other researchers. Peer reviewers are entitled to request access to underlying data (and code) when needed for them to perform their evaluation of a manuscript.Springer Nature provides a research data policy support service for authors and editors, which can be contacted at  [email protected] .This service provides advice on research data policy compliance and on finding research data repositories. It is independent of journal, book and conference proceedings editorial offices and does not advise on specific manuscripts.HelpdeskResearch Data Policy Type 3 by Springer Nature is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Welcome to the peer-sharing community for scientific samples. Completing the sample description template will take you just 25-30 minutes based on the data in your lab notebook.Optional information is indicated with the words "optional information".Clarifications are marked with a / slash before and after the brief expDon’t hesitate to drop us a message ([email protected]) if you find anything unclear in this template.The sample description is organized to cover the following information.Author information Bibliographical informationSample informationDissemination informationReferences, Figures and AcknowledgementsOkay, let's get started!1. Author InformationCorresponding sample author/provider name--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider affiliation--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider email--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author name--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  3rd sample author name--> Enter text here: 3rd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  4th sample author name--> Enter text here: 4th sample author name--> Enter text here:  2. Bibliographical informationSample title/ Choose a title that emphasizes the nature and main features of your sample. For example, “Nanocrystalline silicon oxynitride thin film forphotovoltaic application”. /--> Enter text here: Keywords/ Mention keywords so that other scientists can find your sample more easily. /--> Enter text here: Open access license for published sample description/ Indicate under which open access license you wish to publish your sample description. (Note that the physical sample will be shared according to your preferred Material Transfer Agreement.) Please choose one option./     CC BY     CC BY-NC-SAOriginal research article / Specify your original research article that first mentioned your sample, so adopters can reference both your sample description and youroriginal research article. You can use the DOI or a traditional reference. /--> Enter text here: 3. Sample InformationAbstract/ The abstract should indicate the nature of the sample; provide information on its main properties, and describe why it may be useful to other scientists. The first lines of the abstract are used as a compact display of the sample description. /--> Enter text here: Introduction--> Enter text here, optional information:Sample Preparation Method--> Enter text here: Sample Properties--> Enter text here: Practical details--> Enter text here, optional information:Importance of this sample for further scientific achievements--> Enter text here: 4. Dissemination ConditionsNumber of available physical samples/ Mark number of available samples. Please choose one option./     1     2     3     4     5+Location (city, country) of sample--> Enter text here:Internal storage number of sample/ Documenting your internal storage number helps you finding the sample quickly when requested by other researchers. Your internal storage number will not be included in the published version of the description. /--> Enter text here:Sample return conditions/ How should the adopter proceed with your sample after experiments are completed. Please choose one option. /    Sample may be kept by adopter    Sample must be returned to providerInstruction for Use/ Is there specific instruction which the adopter should be aware of before using the sample (e.g. “For wet chemical analysis chips have to be prepared by turning or milling of the sample surface.)? /--> Enter text here, optional informationMaterial Transfer Agreement (MTA)/ You can either apply your own Material Transfer Agreement under which you want to disseminate your sample, or choose the propose Science Common Material Transfer Agreement. Please choose one option. /    Science Common MTA Open Use 2.0    Custom Material Transfer Agreement5. References, Figures and AcknowledgementsReferences/ Enter references related to the creation of this sample using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the reference(recommended) or manually mentioning the author's names, the journal/book volume and page as well as the publication year. We'll do the final formatting for you! /--> Enter text here:  Figures & figure captions/ At least one figure is required in order to publish a sample description. Please add the figure number and caption here. /--> Enter text here: Grant number/ Grant number of funder of the research project the sample belongs to. / --> Enter text here, optional information:Acknowledgements--> Enter text here, optional information:Notes/ Use this field to convey any additional information useful for other researchers, e.g.: “This sample was presented at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2016 at Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.”/--> Enter text here, optional information:Congratulations!You just completed your sample description.Please export this document as .docx and send your files to our editorial office at [email protected]. Your sample description will be reviewed and assigned with a permanent identifier  DOI within 3 days.

Welcome to the peer-sharing community for scientific samples. Completing the sample description template will take you just 25-30 minutes based on the data in your lab notebook.Optional information is indicated with the words "optional information".Clarifications are marked with a / slash before and after the brief expDon’t hesitate to drop us a message ([email protected]) if you find anything unclear in this template.The sample description is organized to cover the following information.Author information Bibliographical informationSample informationDissemination informationReferences, Figures and AcknowledgementsOkay, let's get started!1. Author InformationCorresponding sample author/provider name--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider affiliation--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider email--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author name--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  3rd sample author name--> Enter text here: 3rd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  4th sample author name--> Enter text here: 4th sample author name--> Enter text here:  2. Bibliographical informationSample title/ Choose a title that emphasizes the nature and main features of your sample. For example, “Nanocrystalline silicon oxynitride thin film forphotovoltaic application”. /--> Enter text here: Keywords/ Mention keywords so that other scientists can find your sample more easily. /--> Enter text here: Open access license for published sample description/ Indicate under which open access license you wish to publish your sample description. (Note that the physical sample will be shared according to your preferred Material Transfer Agreement.) Please choose one option./     CC BY     CC BY-NC-SAOriginal research article / Specify your original research article that first mentioned your sample, so adopters can reference both your sample description and youroriginal research article. You can use the DOI or a traditional reference. /--> Enter text here: 3. Sample InformationAbstract/ The abstract should indicate the nature of the sample; provide information on its main properties, and describe why it may be useful to other scientists. The first lines of the abstract are used as a compact display of the sample description. /--> Enter text here: Introduction--> Enter text here, optional information:Sample Preparation Method--> Enter text here: Sample Properties--> Enter text here: Practical details--> Enter text here, optional information:Importance of this sample for further scientific achievements--> Enter text here: 4. Dissemination ConditionsNumber of available physical samples/ Mark number of available samples. Please choose one option./     1     2     3     4     5+Location (city, country) of sample--> Enter text here:Internal storage number of sample/ Documenting your internal storage number helps you finding the sample quickly when requested by other researchers. Your internal storage number will not be included in the published version of the description. /--> Enter text here:Sample return conditions/ How should the adopter proceed with your sample after experiments are completed. Please choose one option. /    Sample may be kept by adopter    Sample must be returned to providerInstruction for Use/ Is there specific instruction which the adopter should be aware of before using the sample (e.g. “For wet chemical analysis chips have to be prepared by turning or milling of the sample surface.)? /--> Enter text here, optional informationMaterial Transfer Agreement (MTA)/ You can either apply your own Material Transfer Agreement under which you want to disseminate your sample, or choose the propose Science Common Material Transfer Agreement. Please choose one option. /    Science Common MTA Open Use 2.0    Custom Material Transfer Agreement5. References, Figures and AcknowledgementsReferences/ Enter references related to the creation of this sample using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the reference(recommended) or manually mentioning the author's names, the journal/book volume and page as well as the publication year. We'll do the final formatting for you! /--> Enter text here:  Figures & figure captions/ At least one figure is required in order to publish a sample description. Please add the figure number and caption here. /--> Enter text here: Grant number/ Grant number of funder of the research project the sample belongs to. / --> Enter text here, optional information:Acknowledgements--> Enter text here, optional information:Notes/ Use this field to convey any additional information useful for other researchers, e.g.: “This sample was presented at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2016 at Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.”/--> Enter text here, optional information:Congratulations!You just completed your sample description.Please export this document as .docx and send your files to our editorial office at [email protected]. Your sample description will be reviewed and assigned with a permanent identifier  DOI within 3 days.

Welcome to the peer-sharing community for scientific samples. Completing the sample description template will take you just 25-30 minutes based on the data in your lab notebook.Optional information is indicated with the words "optional information".Clarifications are marked with a / slash before and after the brief expDon’t hesitate to drop us a message ([email protected]) if you find anything unclear in this template.The sample description is organized to cover the following information.Author information Bibliographical informationSample informationDissemination informationReferences, Figures and AcknowledgementsOkay, let's get started!1. Author InformationCorresponding sample author/provider name--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider affiliation--> Enter text here: Corresponding author/provider email--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author name--> Enter text here: 2nd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  3rd sample author name--> Enter text here: 3rd sample author affiliation--> Enter text here:  4th sample author name--> Enter text here: 4th sample author name--> Enter text here:  2. Bibliographical informationSample title/ Choose a title that emphasizes the nature and main features of your sample. For example, “Nanocrystalline silicon oxynitride thin film forphotovoltaic application”. /--> Enter text here: Keywords/ Mention keywords so that other scientists can find your sample more easily. /--> Enter text here: Open access license for published sample description/ Indicate under which open access license you wish to publish your sample description. (Note that the physical sample will be shared according to your preferred Material Transfer Agreement.) Please choose one option./     CC BY     CC BY-NC-SAOriginal research article / Specify your original research article that first mentioned your sample, so adopters can reference both your sample description and youroriginal research article. You can use the DOI or a traditional reference. /--> Enter text here: 3. Sample InformationAbstract/ The abstract should indicate the nature of the sample; provide information on its main properties, and describe why it may be useful to other scientists. The first lines of the abstract are used as a compact display of the sample description. /--> Enter text here: Introduction--> Enter text here, optional information:Sample Preparation Method--> Enter text here: Sample Properties--> Enter text here: Practical details--> Enter text here, optional information:Importance of this sample for further scientific achievements--> Enter text here: 4. Dissemination ConditionsNumber of available physical samples/ Mark number of available samples. Please choose one option./     1     2     3     4     5+Location (city, country) of sample--> Enter text here:Internal storage number of sample/ Documenting your internal storage number helps you finding the sample quickly when requested by other researchers. Your internal storage number will not be included in the published version of the description. /--> Enter text here:Sample return conditions/ How should the adopter proceed with your sample after experiments are completed. Please choose one option. /    Sample may be kept by adopter    Sample must be returned to providerInstruction for Use/ Is there specific instruction which the adopter should be aware of before using the sample (e.g. “For wet chemical analysis chips have to be prepared by turning or milling of the sample surface.)? /--> Enter text here, optional informationMaterial Transfer Agreement (MTA)/ You can either apply your own Material Transfer Agreement under which you want to disseminate your sample, or choose the propose Science Common Material Transfer Agreement. Please choose one option. /    Science Common MTA Open Use 2.0    Custom Material Transfer Agreement5. References, Figures and AcknowledgementsReferences/ Enter references related to the creation of this sample using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the reference(recommended) or manually mentioning the author's names, the journal/book volume and page as well as the publication year. We'll do the final formatting for you! /--> Enter text here:  Figures & figure captions/ At least one figure is required in order to publish a sample description. Please add the figure number and caption here. /--> Enter text here: Grant number/ Grant number of funder of the research project the sample belongs to. / --> Enter text here, optional information:Acknowledgements--> Enter text here, optional information:Notes/ Use this field to convey any additional information useful for other researchers, e.g.: “This sample was presented at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2016 at Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.”/--> Enter text here, optional information:Congratulations!You just completed your sample description.Please export this document as .docx and send your files to our editorial office at [email protected]. Your sample description will be reviewed and assigned with a permanent identifier  DOI within 3 days.