Repository details

PANGAEA

Name of repository
PANGAEA
Additional name(s)
  • Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science
Repository URL
https://www.pangaea.de/
Subject(s)
Description
PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Sciences has an almost 30-year history as an open-access library for archiving, publishing, and disseminating georeferenced data from the Earth, environmental, and biodiversity sciences. Originally evolving from a database for sediment cores, it is operated as a joint facility of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the University of Bremen. The the commitment of the hosting institutions ensures FAIRness of published data. Furthermore, PANGAEA guarantees TRUSTed long-term availability (greater than 10 years) of its content. PANGAEA holds a mandate from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and is accredited as a World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC). It was further accredited as a World Data Center by the International Council for Science (ICS) in 2001 and has been certified with the Core Trust Seal since 2019. The cooperation between PANGAEA and the publishing industry along with the correspondent technical implementation enables the cross-referencing of scientific publications and datasets archived as supplements to these publications. PANGAEA is the recommended data repository of numerous international scientific journals.
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Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository size
444.397 datasets (April 2026)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.pangaea.de/about/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Dates

Started
1996

Institutions (2)

Institution name
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
Additional name(s)
  • AWI
  • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Institution identifier(s)
Country
Germany
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
University of Bremen
Additional name(s)
  • MARUM
  • Universität Bremen
Institution identifier(s)
Country
Germany
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (2)

Policy name
Terms of Use
Policy name
PANGAEA preservation policy

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Database licenses (1)

Database license
other

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (1)

Data license
CC

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Data Submission
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • other
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Citation
Author identifier system(s)
  • ORCID
Enhanced publication
yes
Quality management
yes
Quality measure(s)
Profile(s)

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
OAI-PMH
Url
https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=Identify
Documentation
https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/

Metadata standards (5)

Metadata standard
DataCite Metadata Schema
Metadata standard
DIF (Directory Interchange Format)
Metadata standard
Dublin Core
Metadata standard
ISO 19115
Metadata standard
schema.org

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS

Remarks

Remarks
PANGAEA was Core Trust Seal certified until 2026-04-19 (https://doi.org/10.34894/TFRLXN) PANGAEA is covered by WoS/Clarivate, Elsevier and Dimensions.AI data citation index. Data of the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) are available via the data library PANGAEA which is operated as a regular member of the World Data System - WDS. To interact with the PANGAEA database, R and Python 3 packages are provided. An Bathymetry OGC Web Map Service can be used for visualisation. All information about PANGAEAs toolbox can be found at: https://www.pangaea.de/tools/. Further information and citation: Felden, J; Möller, L; Schindler, U; Huber, R; Schumacher, S; Koppe, R; Diepenbroek, M; Glöckner, FO (2023): PANGAEA – Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. Scientific Data, 10(1), 347, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02269-x
Entry date
2012-07-16
Last update
2026-04-27
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re3data.org: PANGAEA; editing status 2026-04-27; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R3XS37 last accessed: 2026-05-06