About

Zanodo is an independent open science research repository and data-sharing platform created to help researchers, scholars, students, institutions, and other contributors preserve and share scholarly work.

Our purpose is straightforward: provide a practical place where research outputs can be deposited, described, discovered, and accessed.

Zanodo supports a broad range of scholarly and research materials, including research reports, theses and dissertations, datasets, posters, presentations, publications, working papers, technical documents, supplementary materials, and other research-related files.

What Zanodo Does

Research does not exist only in traditional journal articles. Important knowledge may be contained in a dataset, university thesis, conference poster, technical report, presentation, or early-stage research document.

Zanodo is designed to accommodate this wider research landscape.

Contributors can create records for their work and provide descriptive information such as a title, authorship, publication or upload date, abstract or description, keywords, document type, and other relevant metadata.

Where public access is permitted, visitors can discover records and access the files associated with them.

Researcher Profiles

Zanodo provides researcher profiles intended to bring a contributor's research activity together in one identifiable place.

Eligible profiles may receive a unique Zanodo Research ID. This identifier helps distinguish profiles within the Zanodo platform and can provide a consistent reference to a researcher's public Zanodo record.

A Zanodo Research ID is an internal identifier provided by Zanodo. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, it should not be interpreted as an ORCID iD, institutional employee number, academic qualification, professional certification, or endorsement of a researcher's identity, credentials, or work.

Researchers are responsible for keeping information on their profiles accurate and for avoiding false claims about affiliations, qualifications, authorship, or achievements.

Materials You May Find on Zanodo

The repository may contain:

  • Research reports and technical reports

  • Theses and dissertations

  • Research datasets and supporting data

  • Academic and scientific posters

  • Conference and research presentations

  • Publications and manuscripts

  • Working papers and preprints

  • Supplementary research materials

  • Educational or scholarly documents

  • Other materials connected with legitimate research and knowledge sharing

The presence of a record on Zanodo does not necessarily mean that the material has undergone peer review.

Each record should be evaluated according to its own authorship, methodology, sources, publication history, supporting evidence, and stated review status.

An Independent Research Repository

Zanodo is an independent platform.

Unless a specific partnership is expressly identified on the relevant page, Zanodo should not be understood as representing, operating on behalf of, or being officially affiliated with a university, journal, government agency, research institution, indexing service, publisher, funding organization, or another repository.

Names, trademarks, institutional affiliations, journal titles, and other third-party identifiers appearing in deposited records remain associated with their respective owners.

Our Approach to Open Science

We believe useful research should be easier to preserve and discover.

Open science can extend beyond finished publications. Data, methods, reports, posters, presentations, negative findings, supplementary files, and other research outputs can provide meaningful context for future work.

Zanodo therefore aims to provide infrastructure that supports responsible research sharing without presenting repository hosting as a substitute for scientific validation.

Accessibility and credibility serve different purposes. Making a document accessible does not establish that its conclusions are correct.

Responsibility and Research Integrity

Researchers and contributors remain responsible for the materials they submit.

Users should upload only material they are legally permitted to share and should provide accurate information about authorship, ownership, licensing, affiliations, funding, and other relevant details.

Zanodo may review, restrict, correct, disable, or remove records when appropriate, including records involving copyright concerns, impersonation, fraudulent information, privacy violations, malware, unlawful content, manipulated metadata, or abuse of the platform.

Repository moderation does not amount to scientific peer review.

Building a Useful Scholarly Record

Our long-term aim is to make Zanodo a useful environment for preserving and connecting research outputs.

A good repository does more than store files. It provides context.

For this reason, we encourage contributors to submit meaningful metadata, identify authors correctly, describe their work clearly, disclose relevant relationships when appropriate, and use suitable licensing information.

These details help readers understand what they are accessing and how the material may be used.

Our Commitment

Zanodo is being developed around several principles: accessible research, responsible sharing, clear attribution, useful metadata, researcher identity, preservation of scholarly outputs, and respect for intellectual property.

We will continue improving the platform as the repository and its research community develop.

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Open Science Research Repository & Data Sharing