Request a removal

Ask OSCR to remove a paper's record, the copies it keeps of the authors' scripts (or their display from their source), or the paper's tracing map. Published rules decide each request, and the operator reviews what they cannot decide. At the moment no human moderator is on duty (how requests are decided).

What happens to a request

1. OSCR's machine reads it within about ten minutes and applies its published rules (the moderation policy): a request from a verified author of the paper (your ORCID iD among its authors), or from a maintainer of the code it names (its owner, or a public member of its organization, on GitHub), is applied without waiting; the copies of the authors' code are hidden at once for copyright or personal data, until the operator reviews them; any other request waits for the operator, and nothing is removed meanwhile. At the moment no human moderator is on duty. A request no one decided in 30 days is closed without removal, and may be asked again in a way the rules decide. A request made for personal data is the exception: the operator answers it within one month, as the GDPR requires, and it is not closed without an answer.
2. If the request is accepted, what it names leaves OSCR at the next nightly publication, at 04:17 (the registry's local time): its pages, its search, its DOI lookup and its open data. A whole record leaves every page; the copies of the authors' scripts leave, and are no longer shown from their source, and their links to the source stay; a tracing map leaves with its matches and its validation.
3. If it is refused, the decision says why. Either way it shows on this page and on your account page: no email is sent.

What is kept

• Your request, with your account: who you are, what you ask to remove and why, your justification and your evidence link, the decision and the rule that made it.
• No email address: a justification that holds one is refused.
• One request per account and record. You may complete it while it is open; once it is refused, you can ask again only in a way the rules decide at once. Ten requests a day at most.