ODC-SCI Policies

• Terms and Conditions
• Non-institutional community membership policy (click to download)
  
• Version control policy (click to download)
  
• Editorial board/Data team non-disclosure agreement (click to download)

Terms and conditions

By using the ODC-SCI, you are agreeing to the SciCrunch Infrastructure Terms of Use.

Additionally, you are agreeing to the ODC-SCI policies. Our Policies have been forged by executive and leadership committee discussion and voting over the past 2 years to uphold the ODC-SCI principles.  At the current time our policies are as follows:

Policies of the ODC-SCI Staged BetaRelease (v.1.0) (01/07/2021)

Definitions:

• ODC-SCI Laboratory (ODC-SCI Lab):  Basic organizational unit on the ODC-SCI for data upload and includes Personal and Lab data spaces. ODC-SCI Labs consist of individual Lab Member users under Principal Investigator(s) (PI). Creating a new ODC-SCI Lab requires approval by the ODC-SCI Leadership Team. Only Lab Members of the ODC-SCI Lab have access to the respective Lab data space and corresponding Personal data spaces within the Lab.

• Data privacy levels:
  • Personal data space: May only be viewed by the original data uploader and respective PIs of the ODC-SCI Lab that the dataset was uploaded to.
  • Lab data space: May be viewed by all Lab Members of the respective ODC-SCI Lab.
    
  • Community data space: May be viewed by any user who belongs to at least one ODC-SCI Lab (i.e. Lab Member user status).
  • Public:  May be viewed by anyone visiting ODC-SCI logged in with a verified email (i.e. Registered User). Public datasets can be accessed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.

• User types:
  • Unregistered visitors: May view metadata of published (i.e. public) data, but cannot download the datasets.
  • Registered visitors: May view and access published (i.e. public) datasets.
  • General Community Member: May request to join an ODC-SCI Lab or create a new ODC-SCI Lab.
  • Lab Member: Belongs to at least one ODC-SCI Lab. May view and access datasets in the respective ODC-SCI Lab data space(s).  May view and access datasets in the Community data space.

Setting up an ODC-SCI Lab:

• Only General Community Members can request to create a new ODC-SCI Lab.
• Requests for a new ODC-SCI Lab will undergo a manual review by the ODC-SCI Leadership Team or other authorized individuals. Criteria include:
  • The user making the request is verified as a PI belonging to a recognized institution
  • Laboratory agrees to abide by the principles of the ODC-SCI and ODC-SCI Terms and Conditions and Data Publishing Rights
• Viewing data in the Community data space: Only users belonging to an ODC-SCI Lab will be able to view and access datasets in the Community data space.

Data:

• ODC-SCI allows for upload of preclinical data defined as non-human data (i.e. de-identified data from participants or animal subjects collected under Institutional Review Board and ethical approval). It is solely the data uploader’s responsibility to ensure that the data meets the definition, is appropriate for the ODC-SCI, and adheres to the Terms of Use of the SciCrunch Infrastructure. 
• Data submitted for publication will undergo review by the ODC-SCI Editorial Board and Data Team to ensure the data is within the scope of the ODC-SCI and appropriately formatted according to the ODC-SCI publication format.
• Data licenses: All published (i.e. public) datasets are published under the CC-BY 4.0 license. CC-BY licensing allows for dataset reuse and requires appropriate crediting of the original authors.
  • Dataset owners (i.e. PIs) will be asked to agree to the CC-BY 4.0 license during the dataset publication process.
  • At future times, we may give options for a range of minimally restrictive licenses but they are not available at this current time.
• Each published dataset will be assigned a digital object identifier (DOI).
• Each published dataset will be accompanied with a full citation.

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