Policies
These are the rules OSCR follows, one page per subject: what it shows and copies, what it does not do, how it decides on requests, and what it asks of the people who use it. Each page describes what the registry's code does, and says so when its rule changes.
- 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 paper and the repository are the reference. The registry records facts about them and links to them.
- Nothing is copied or reproduced beyond what its licence allows. When the licence of some code allows no copy, the reader's browser shows the file from its source, and the registry keeps no copy of it.
- No part of the registry asks for, shows or needs an email address.
- Published rules decide what people ask, and when in doubt they choose the safer outcome: hiding is automatic, and publishing needs a verified identity or checks that pass. The operator reviews what the rules cannot decide and can reverse what they did. No request waits more than 30 days, except a request about personal data, which the operator answers within one month and does not close without an answer.
- Reading the registry is free, and the registry runs at no cost. It has no fees, no advertising and no tracking.