Policies

Metadata Policy

for information describing items in the repository

1. Anyone may access the metadata free of charge.
2. The metadata may be re-used in any medium without prior permission for not-for-profit purposes provided the OAI Identifier or a link to the original metadata record are given.
3. The metadata must not be re-used in any medium for commercial purposes without formal permission.

Data Policy

for full-text and other full data items

1. Access to some or all full items is controlled.
2. No full-item re-use policy defined. Assume no rights at all have been granted.

Content Policy

for types of document & data set held

1. This is an institutional or departmental repository.
2. Subject Specialities:
   • Science General
   • Agriculture, Food and Veterinary
   • Biology and Biochemistry
   • Chemistry and Chemical Technology
3. ePrints@CFTRI is restricted to:
   • Journal articles
   • Conference and workshop papers
   • Theses and dissertations
   • Books, chapters and sections
4. Deposited items may include:
   • working drafts
   • submitted versions (as sent to journals for peer-review)
   • accepted versions (author's final peer-reviewed drafts)
   • published versions (publisher-created files)
5. Items are individually tagged with their version type and date.
6. Principal Languages: English

Submission Policy

concerning depositors, quality & copyright

1. Items may only be deposited by academic staff, registered students, and employees of the institution
2. Authors may only submit their own work for archiving.
3. Eligible depositors must deposit bibliographic metadata for all their publications.
4. Eligible depositors must deposit full texts of all their publications, although they may delay making them publicly visible to comply with publishers' embargos.
5. The administrator only vets items for the eligibility of authors/depositors, relevance to the scope of ePrints@CFTRI, valid layout & format, and the exclusion of spam
6. The validity and authenticity of the content of submissions is the sole responsibility of the depositor.
7. Items can be deposited at any time, but will not be made publicly visible until any publishers' or funders' embargo period has expired.
8. Any copyright violations are entirely the responsibility of the authors/depositors.
9. If ePrints@CFTRI receives proof of copyright violation, the relevant item will be removed immediately.

Preservation Policy

1. Items will be retained indefinitely.
2. ePrints@CFTRI will try to ensure continued readability and accessibility.
   • Items will be migrated to new file formats where necessary.
3. ePrints@CFTRI regularly backs up its files according to current best practice.
4. Items may be removed at the request of the author/copyright holder, but this is strongly discouraged.
5. Acceptable reasons for withdrawal include:
   • Journal publishers' rules
   • Proven copyright violation or plagiarism
   • Legal requirements and proven violations
   • National Security
   • Falsified research
6. Withdrawn items are deleted entirely from the database.
7. Withdrawn items' identifiers/URLs are not retained.
8. The metadata of withdrawn items will not be searchable.
9. If necessary, an updated version may be deposited.
   • The earlier version may be withdrawn from public view.
   • The item's persistent URL will always link to the latest version.
10. No closure policy defined.