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<p><i>Earth System Science Data</i> (<i>ESSD</i>) provides a wide range of openly accessible, high-quality, well-documented and highly useful data products while ensuring recognition of and credit to data providers. As authors, reviewers, and editors of many <i>ESSD</i> publications, we encounter uncertainty about mechanisms and requirements for open access, about what constitutes a published data product, and about how one goes about submitting, evaluating or using <i>ESSD</i> products. With this short note, published during an important editorial transition, we use our combined experience to define guidelines, requirements and benefits of the <i>ESSD</i> processes.</p>