Requesting samples

BOSCORF has an open policy regarding sample requests from academic researchers and doctoral students. We supply thousands of marine sediment samples annually to researchers all over the world. Please carefully read the Sample Distribution Policy and the instructions on how to request samples from the repository detailed below.

Before you request

  • Decide which samples you wish to study and request. You can find an inventory of the BOSCORF holdings on our Collections Page.
  • Carefully read the Sample Distribution Policy and Guidelines on how to request samples. Note that material provided may only to be used for the stated purpose and not for any other work, and sub-samples of the material must not be sent to other investigators.
  • Please complete the Sampling Request Form online. The accompanying Sampling Request Sample List should then be sent to boscorf@noc.ac.uk.

After you have received samples

  • When you publish on the samples you are requested to acknowledge the BOSCORF in your manuscript. This assists us with documenting the outcomes from the facility to the scientific community and justify the funding we receive.
  • Please send us copies (PDFs), or links to published content that use samples hosted in our collection.

For more information on how to request samples for educational purposes and museum displays, please contact us at boscorf@noc.ac.uk.

Research collaboration with facility staff

Users are strongly encouraged to engage with facility staff as part of our active research collaboration culture at BOSCORF. We have a range of in-house expertise to support you from the logistical, analytical, data quality assurance, and interpretation stages of your research - in return, we are pleased to engage with you through to the final stages of research output and publication.

Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT)

We encourage users to recognise the input of BOSCORF staff to the research process by including them as contributors in research outputs using the CRediT contributor roles. Find out more about CRediT here