Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern access to and use of Zanodo, including researcher profiles, repository records, research uploads, datasets, documents, identifiers, and related services.

By accessing or using Zanodo, you agree to these Terms.

1. Purpose of Zanodo

Zanodo provides infrastructure for storing, describing, sharing, discovering, and accessing research and scholarly materials.

Supported materials may include reports, theses, dissertations, datasets, posters, presentations, publications, manuscripts, working papers, supplementary materials, and other legitimate research outputs.

Zanodo provides repository infrastructure. Unless explicitly stated for a particular service or record, Zanodo is not the publisher, academic institution, peer reviewer, research sponsor, certification authority, or author of materials deposited by users.

2. User Accounts

Certain features may require an account.

You are responsible for providing accurate account information, maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials, and taking reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized use.

You are responsible for activity conducted through your account unless applicable law provides otherwise.

Accounts must not be created for impersonation, deceptive attribution, spam, automated abuse, or circumvention of platform restrictions.

3. Researcher Profiles

Users may create or maintain researcher profiles containing scholarly and professional information.

Profile information must be accurate to the best of the user's knowledge.

You may not falsely claim academic qualifications, publications, institutional affiliations, awards, authorship, professional credentials, or another person's identity.

4. Zanodo Research ID

Zanodo may assign a unique Research ID to a researcher profile.

A Zanodo Research ID functions as an identifier within the Zanodo ecosystem. Assignment of an identifier does not constitute verification of academic qualifications, institutional employment, research quality, professional licensing, or identity beyond any verification process expressly described by Zanodo.

Users must not present a Zanodo Research ID in a misleading manner.

5. Uploading Research

By uploading material, you represent that you have the rights, permissions, licenses, or other lawful authority necessary to submit and distribute it through Zanodo.

You remain responsible for your submission.

Do not upload material merely because you found a copy elsewhere on the internet.

6. Intellectual Property

Uploading content to Zanodo does not automatically transfer ownership of that content to Zanodo.

Authors, creators, institutions, publishers, licensors, or other applicable rights holders retain their rights subject to the license and permissions governing each submission.

By depositing material, you grant Zanodo the permissions reasonably necessary to host, store, reproduce, process, display, index, preserve, back up, and distribute the material according to the access and licensing settings associated with the record.

Where a specific open license is selected, reuse of the material is governed by that license.

7. Third-Party Rights

Users must respect copyrights, database rights, privacy rights, trademarks, contractual restrictions, confidentiality obligations, and other applicable rights.

A citation does not automatically provide permission to reproduce copyrighted material.

Similarly, academic use does not automatically make every form of redistribution lawful.

8. Research Data and Personal Information

Do not upload confidential, restricted, personally identifiable, or sensitive research data unless you have a lawful basis and the repository configuration is appropriate for that material.

Researchers working with human-subject data are responsible for applicable ethical approvals, participant consent, anonymization, data protection requirements, and institutional restrictions.

9. Prohibited Uses

You may not use Zanodo to distribute malware; impersonate another person; falsify authorship or research credentials; manipulate repository metadata deceptively; infringe intellectual property rights; expose unlawfully obtained personal information; facilitate fraud; publish unlawful material; interfere with platform security; artificially manipulate usage statistics; conduct unauthorized automated activity; or use repository pages primarily as spam, deceptive redirects, link schemes, or search-ranking manipulation.

Automated access may be restricted where it places an unreasonable load on the service or violates published technical rules.

10. Scholarly Integrity

Users should accurately describe the nature and status of deposited work.

A preprint should not deliberately be represented as a peer-reviewed journal publication if it has not received that status. A dataset should not intentionally be attributed to someone who did not create or contribute to it. Material that has been corrected, withdrawn, or retracted should not knowingly be represented in a misleading way.

Zanodo may act when repository metadata is materially deceptive.

11. Peer Review and Verification

Hosting on Zanodo does not itself constitute peer review.

Zanodo does not automatically verify the scientific accuracy, reproducibility, methodology, originality, conclusions, authorship, institutional affiliation, or research integrity of every deposited item.

Readers should independently evaluate research before relying on it.

12. Moderation

Zanodo may investigate content or accounts that appear to violate these Terms or applicable law.

Depending on the circumstances, we may request clarification, modify visibility, restrict downloads, correct platform-generated information, preserve a record while disabling a file, suspend an account, or remove material.

Moderation decisions may consider preservation of the scholarly record as well as legal and safety obligations.

13. Withdrawal and Removal

Research repositories serve a preservation function, so withdrawal may operate differently from deletion on an ordinary file-hosting service.

Where appropriate, a withdrawn record may retain basic bibliographic metadata or a withdrawal notice while access to the underlying file is restricted.

This approach can help preserve citation history and prevent an existing scholarly reference from becoming misleading.

Removal procedures may differ where legal, copyright, privacy, security, or safety considerations require another outcome.

14. Copyright Complaints

Rights holders who believe material available through Zanodo infringes their rights may contact us with enough information to identify the work, locate the disputed material, explain the claimed rights, and allow us to communicate with the complainant.

We may restrict access while reviewing a sufficiently detailed complaint.

Submitting knowingly false or misleading infringement claims may have legal consequences.

15. Availability of the Service

We aim to maintain a reliable repository, but uninterrupted availability cannot be guaranteed.

Maintenance, security incidents, infrastructure failures, software changes, technical problems, legal requirements, or circumstances outside our reasonable control may temporarily affect access.

Users should maintain appropriate independent copies of important research materials.

16. External Links and Services

Records may link to publishers, universities, research projects, author websites, datasets, code repositories, funding organizations, or other third-party services.

A link does not by itself constitute endorsement.

Third-party services are governed by their respective terms and policies.

17. No Guarantee of Indexing

Zanodo may make public records technically accessible to search engines, scholarly discovery systems, or other indexing services.

We do not guarantee that Google, Google Scholar, Bing, academic databases, citation indexes, or another third-party service will crawl, index, rank, retain, or display any particular Zanodo record.

18. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Zanodo is provided on an "as available" basis.

We do not guarantee that every uploaded work is accurate, complete, original, peer reviewed, safe for a particular application, or suitable for a particular research, medical, legal, financial, engineering, or professional decision.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Zanodo and its operators will not be responsible for indirect or consequential losses resulting from reliance on user-submitted research, unauthorized third-party activity, external websites, temporary service interruptions, or use of materials contrary to their stated license or purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

20. Changes to These Terms

These Terms may be updated as Zanodo develops.

Material revisions will be reflected on this page with an updated revision date.

Continued use following an applicable update constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.

21. Contact

Questions concerning these Terms, repository records, intellectual property, or platform use may be submitted through our Contact Us page.

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