Research policy

What may be uploaded, how rights are declared, and how takedowns work. Uploading a publisher PDF you do not have the right to share is the single most common way a repository gets into trouble, so this is specific.

What you may upload

• Work you wrote, where you hold the rights.
• A preprint, where the publisher permits it.
• An accepted manuscript, where your agreement permits it, after any embargo.
• A publisher version, only where it is open access under a licence that allows redistribution.
• A dataset, poster, thesis, dissertation or proposal that is yours to share.

What you may not upload

• A publisher PDF of a paywalled article, unless your agreement explicitly allows it.
• Anything containing identifiable participant data.
• A copyrighted instrument or test, including scoring keys and norms. Point to the publisher instead.

Declaring the version

• Every upload asks which version you are sharing: author-owned, preprint, accepted manuscript, publisher version, open access, or link-only.
• Link-only always exists. If you cannot share the file, publish the record with a DOI and let people follow it to the source.
• Getting this wrong is on the uploader, and the declaration is recorded.

Metrics

• Reads count one view per person per item per day, not one per page load.
• Downloads count file retrievals, deduplicated the same way.
• Citations count references to an item from other items on this platform. It is not a substitute for a journal citation count, and it is labelled so nobody mistakes it for one.

Takedowns

• A rights holder can report infringing material through the copyright page. We remove it while we investigate, rather than after.
• The uploader is told what was removed and why, and can respond.
• Repeated infringement ends the account.