Policies
The rules OSCR holds itself to, each in its own page: what it shows and copies, what it never does, how it decides what people ask of it, and what it asks of them. They describe how the registry's code actually behaves; when one changes, its page says so.
- Licences and availability statements
- What the registry shows of a paper's abstract and statements, and under which licences.
- The authors' code
- Which scripts the registry copies, which it shows from their source without a copy, and how each file is checked.
- The paper's full text
- Never stored, never served: the reader's browser fetches it from Europe PMC or PubMed Central.
- Removal and takedown
- Who may ask, what can be removed, how requests are decided, and what a removal does.
- Moderation
- The published rules that decide removal requests, submissions and claims, what waits for the operator, and how to appeal.
- DOIs for tracing maps
- Zenodo DOIs for maps validated by an author only: what the DOI covers, its relations, its creators.
- Privacy
- Every personal datum the registry holds, why, where, for how long, and your rights.
- Terms of use
- Using the site, the data and the maps; accounts; what the registry promises and what it does not.
- Code of conduct
- How to behave in the registry's forms and project spaces, and how conduct is enforced.
- Accessibility
- What the site does for accessibility, its known limits, and how to report a barrier.
- Citation
- How to cite the registry, a paper's record, a tracing map and the datasets.
The principles behind them
- The source prevails. The registry records and links; the paper and the repository are the reference.
- Licences first. Nothing is copied or reproduced beyond what its licence allows: code whose licence allows no copy is shown from its source by the reader's browser, never from a copy.
- No email address is asked for, shown or needed to use any part of the registry.
- Published rules decide what people ask, in the safe direction: hiding is automatic when in doubt, publishing needs a verified identity or checks that pass. The operator reviews what the rules cannot decide, can reverse what they did, and nothing waits more than 30 days — except a request about personal data, which the operator answers within one month, and which is never closed unanswered.
- Zero cost, for readers and for the registry: no fee, no advertising, no tracking.