OSCR

Code of conduct

OSCR records researchers' work, and they and others can correct the records. This needs honesty and respect from everyone, in particular towards the authors.

Where it applies

  • Everything you write in the registry's forms: submissions and their notes, claims and their statements, corrections and their notes, removal requests and their justifications.
  • The project's own spaces: its GitHub issues and pull requests, under the project's code of conduct (the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1).
  • Later, the discussions and reproduction reports the registry will open with its moderation.

What is expected

  • Be truthful: claim a paper only if you are among its authors, and a repository only if you maintain it; give facts you believe accurate.
  • Respect the authors, their work and their choices, including their licences and their wish to be removed.
  • Take care with other people's data: do not write someone else's personal details in a form.
  • Act in good faith: use the removal and correction forms for what they are for.

What is not acceptable

  • impersonating an author, a maintainer or anyone else;
  • false claims, false corrections, or links to what is not the paper's code or data;
  • harassment, insults, threats, or discriminatory language, in any text;
  • publishing, or asking to publish, another person's private information;
  • flooding the forms, or using them to advertise;
  • trying to get around the registry's security or limits.

Towards authors

The registry records a missing or dead link as a fact and says what it found in neutral words. It asks the same of those who use it: a correction or a note describes what is wrong, without blaming anyone.

Enforcement

Requests are decided by published rules (the moderation policy). The rules act at once only on what a requester cannot forge (a verified identity, the paper's own metadata) or, within daily limits, to hide copies of code. Everything else waits for the operator, who may refuse it with a reason, and may reverse what the rules did. Misuse may lead to a role being withdrawn or an account being closed (the terms). In the project's spaces, the Contributor Covenant's guidelines apply.

Reporting

To report conduct in the registry (a false claim, an abusive text, content about you) use the paper's removal request or a correction, as fits, and say what happened. For the project's spaces, open an issue on GitHub. OSCR has no email address.