Repository Policies
Metadata Policy
for information describing items in the repository
- All Metadata on REPO_PHBern are public domain (CC0). Anyone can access, copy, distribute, and re-use the metadata for any purpose free of charge.
Data Policy
for full-text and other full data items
- Anyone may access full items free of charge.
- If not tagged differently, copies of full items generally can be:
- reproduced, displayed or performed, given to third parties, and stored in a database in any format or medium
- for personal research or study, educational, not-for-profit, or commercial purposes without prior permission or charge.
provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given.
- This repository is not the publisher; it is merely the online archive.
- Mention of the repository is appreciated but not mandatory.
Content Policy
for types of document & data set held
- REPO_PHBern is an institutional repository.
- REPO_PHBern holds all types of scientific materials.
- A detailed list of publication types and datasets in REPO_PHBern can be found in an according document.
- 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)
- research data
- Items are individually tagged with:
- their peer-review status.
- their publication status.
Submission Policy
concerning depositors, quality & copyright
- Items may only be deposited by accredited members, and academic staff of the Bern University of Teacher Education, or their delegated agents.
- Eligible depositors must deposit metadata for all their publications.
- Eligible depositors must deposit full texts of all their publications, although they may delay making them publicly visible to comply with publishers' embargos.
- The administrators only vet items for the eligibility of authors/depositors, relevance to the scope of REPO_PHBern, valid layout and format, and the exclusion of spam.
- The validity and authenticity of the content of submissions is the sole responsibility of the depositor.
- Items can be deposited at any time, but will not be made publicly visible until any publishers' or funders' embargo period has expired.
- Deposited metadata and items can only made public by administrators.
- If REPO_PHBern receives proof of copyright violation, the relevant item will be removed as soon as possible.
Preservation Policy
- Items will be retained indefinitely.
- The Bern University of Teacher Education will try to ensure continued readability and accessibility.
- Where possible items will be migrated to new file formats when necessary.
- It may not be possible to guarantee the readability of some unusual file formats.
- The repository may work with external partners to convert or migrate file formats, develop and implement software emulations for old file formats, and/or record preservation metadata.
- The repository regularly backs up its files according to current best practice.
- Items may only be removed for compelling reasons.
- Acceptable reasons for withdrawal include:
- Proven copyright violation or plagiarism
- Legal requirements and proven violations
- National Security
- Falsified research
- Withdrawn items may not be deleted, but are removed from public view.
- Identifiers/URLs of withdrawn items will be retained transiently. REPO_PHBern may reveal a deleted status for records upon harvesting requests.
- URLs will continue to point to 'tombstone' citations, to avoid broken links and to retain item histories.
- The metadata of withdrawn items will not be searchable
- Errata and corrigenda lists may be included with the original record if required.
- If necessary, an updated version may be deposited. The earlier version may be withdrawn from public view, or the original URL will be linked to the latest version.
- If REPO_PHBern is closed down, the database will be transferred to another archive.