Policies

Content policy

Life of Research accepts scholarly and research outputs: articles, preprints, datasets, theses, reports, posters, presentations and research software. By uploading, you confirm that:

• You hold the rights to share the work, or have permission from all rights holders.
• The work does not contain private personal data of third parties, malware, or unlawful content.
• Author and metadata information is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Records that violate this policy may be withdrawn by administrators without notice.

Licenses

You choose a license at upload time. We recommend CC-BY 4.0 for maximum reuse with attribution, or CC0 for datasets. The license applies to the uploaded files; metadata is always public.

Withdrawals

You may withdraw your own records at any time from your dashboard. Withdrawn records are removed from public view, search and the API; the identifier is never reused.

Takedown requests

If you believe a record infringes your copyright or contains inappropriate content, email contact@lifeofresearch.com with the record identifier (for example LOR-00042) and a short justification. Verified requests are handled promptly, and the record is removed from public view, search results, the API and the OAI-PMH feed.

Privacy

We store the minimum needed to run the service: your name, email, optional affiliation/ORCID, and the content you upload. We do not sell data, run ads, or use third-party trackers. View and download counters are aggregate and anonymous.

Signing in with Google is optional. Nothing from Google loads on our pages until you press “Continue with Google”; your browser then talks to Google (Firebase Authentication) to confirm who you are, and we receive your name, your verified email address and an account identifier from Google. We keep that identifier only so we can recognise you next time — not your Google password, contacts or anything else — and you can disconnect Google in your account settings once your account has its own password.

Preservation

Files are stored on managed hosting with regular backups. This is a best-effort free service; for works requiring formal long-term preservation guarantees, consider depositing in an additional repository (e.g. Zenodo) as well — multiple homes make research safer.