Correcting a record's links

The harvester can miss a repository, take data for code, or cite a tool the authors only used. The people who know best — the paper's authors and its code's maintainers — can correct the record's links themselves.

Who may correct

• A verified author of the paper (how one becomes one): any of its links.
• A maintainer of one of its code repositories — its owner, or a public member of its organization, on GitHub (or a maintainer the operator made): that repository — say what it is, or remove it — and new links.

A contributor of a repository is not enough, though GitHub shows one as a maintainer: one merged pull request makes one. A contributor may ask the paper's authors, who can correct the record (what only verified people can do).

What can be corrected

Links only, in well-defined changes — never free text or markup:

• add a link, as the authors' code or as their data (checked like a submission's: a place the registry knows, and answering);
• remove a link;
• say what a link is: the authors' code, their data, or a tool they used.

The bibliographic record — title, authors, journal — comes from the paper's own published metadata and is not edited here: a mistake in it is the publisher's to correct.

How

1. Open the paper's page, signed in, and go to its Contribute section.
2. Under "Correct its record", choose the changes (up to ten at once) and, if you wish, a short note (500 characters, no address).
3. Send. The site checks each added link at once and records the correction.

What happens next

OSCR's harvester applies the correction: it verifies the added repositories (commit, licence, scripts), concludes the paper's status again, and stores a new version of the record. A correction outlives every later scan of the paper: the machine's own reading never overrules a person's. The page's Versions section lists it as "a correction by a verified author" or "by a maintainer of its code" — never by name; who made it stays on the operator's computer. Your account page shows its status (queued, applied or refused, with the reason).

Anything else wrong

• A match that pairs the wrong paragraph and lines: say it in a correction's note.
• You are an author but not recognized: claim the paper.
• Something should not be on the site at all: request its removal.

At most 20 corrections a day per account.