1.	For the purpose of data access and re-access of the development of Taiwan Ecology Research (hereafter called TERN) and inter-technology cooperation development, this agreement is thus made.
2.	The information center should be established by researchers from each station appointed by the convener of TERN, as data access, announcement maintenance, and connection work are taken charge.
3.	The chairman of any research at TERN commissioned by the National Science Council should turn in a copy of the research report to the information center after data access and filing are finished. He should also write a data content introduction with a fixed pattern, and make a suggestion on the data type. After the article is published, he should send two of the copies to the information center for each station to file and display. According to LTER of the U.S., the data is divided into two types:
	Type I : refer to data accessible freely after collection within two to three years. However, a user has to fill in related information and complete register on the internet before access.
	Type II : refer to unique data. A user has to get the data-maker’s consent in writing before access.
4.	After the information center receives the data, the data type decided by the convener should be announced. The process includes: inform the convener and data-supplier, save data copy in a hard disk and compact disk, and create a website…etc. The information center should never publish the data on the internet or give the data to users without commission from the convener.
5.	The convener should decide the type of the data received from the researchers and negotiate with the data maker when necessary.
6.	A data user has to complete register with consent in writing from the convener (Type I data) or the data maker (Type II data) before access. The information center has to inform the data supplier about the process.
7.	After a user receives the data, the rules hereinafter should be followed:
	A.When data processed and analyzed becomes new data, research material, or circulating information, please inform the data supplier.
	B.When data processed becomes in circulation, the process has to be clearly referred to. That the data processed is no longer the original one has to be noted.
	C.Never circulate the original data.
	D.The data source and original supplier should be noted in the appreciation pages of a document or research report with quotation of related document reports of data supplier and document file number of the data-making sponsored by National Science Council should be referred to.
	E.Discuss how data is used with the original supplier when further use. Any article produced with the data access can be contributed to the writer after consent from the supplier.
	F.After the article is published, please mail three copies to the information center: the first copy as display at each station of TERN, the second copy to the original data supplier, the third copy saved as PDF file by the center.
8.	A data user is responsible for the data after access. Anything against research ethics should never be done, or else he should also be responsible for that. The convener of TERN, the information center, and any researcher should report any illegal use of the data. In case the convener finds it true, he should inform each researcher and the manager of long-term ecology of the National Science Council and then withdraw the data access.