Open Archives Initiatives

Metadata

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
3. The metadata must not be re-used in any medium for commercial purposes without formal permission.

Data

1. Anyone may access full items free of charge.
2. Copies of full items generally can be:
   • reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium
   • for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.
   provided:
   • the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given
   • the content is not changed in any way
3. Full items must not be harvested by robots except transiently for full-text indexing or citation analysis
4. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holders.
5. This repository is not the publisher; it is merely the online archive.
6. Mention of Cardinal Scholar is appreciated but not mandatory.

Content

1. This is an institutional or departmental repository.
2. Subject Specialities: Multidisciplinary
3. Cardinal Scholar holds all types of materials.
4. Deposited items may include:
   • 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.
   • their peer-review status.
   • their publication status.
6. Principal Languages: English

Submission

1. Items may only be deposited by accredited members, academic staff, registered students, and employees of the institution
2. Authors may only submit their own work for archiving.
3. The administrator only vets items for relevance to the scope of Cardinal Scholar, and the exclusion of spam
4. The validity and authenticity of the content of submissions is the sole responsibility of the depositor.
5. No embargo policy defined.
6. Any copyright violations are entirely the responsibility of the authors/depositors.
7. If Cardinal Scholar receives proof of copyright violation, the relevant item will be removed immediately.

Preservation

1. Items will be retained indefinitely.
2. Cardinal Scholar will try to ensure continued readability and accessibility.
   • Items will be migrated to new file formats where necessary.
   • Where possible, software emulations will be provided to access un-migrated formats.
   • It may not be possible to guarantee the readability of some unusual file formats.
3. Cardinal Scholar regularly backs up its files according to current best.
4. Items may not normally be removed from Cardinal Scholar.
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 not deleted per se, but are removed from public view.
7. Withdrawn items' identifiers/URLs are retained indefinitely.
8. URLs will continue to point to 'tombstone' citations, to avoid broken links and to retain item histories, with:
   • a link to a replacement version, where available
9. The metadata of withdrawn items will not be searchable.
10. Errata and corrigenda lists may be included with the original record if required.
11. In the event of Cardinal Scholar being closed down, the database will be transferred to another appropriate archive.