Repository Policies
- 1. Access to some or all of the metadata is controlled.
- 2. The metadata may be re-used in any medium without prior permission for not-for-profit purposes provided:
- 2.1 the OAI Identifier or a link to the original metadata record are given
- 2.2 STBA JIA Repository is mentioned
For information describing items in the repository
- 1. Access to some or all full items is controlled.
- 2. Copies of full items generally can be:
- 2.1 reproduced, and stored in a database
- 2.2 for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.
- 2.3 provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given
- 3. Full items must not be harvested by robots
- 4. This repository is not the publisher; it is merely the online archive.
- 5. Mention of STBA JIA Institutional Repository is appreciated but not mandatory.
For full-text and other full data items
- For types of document & data set held
- This is an institutional or departmental repository.
- Subject Specialities:
- 1. English Literation
- 2. Japanese Literation
- 3. Public Literation
- 1. working drafts
- 2. submitted versions (as sent to journals for peer-review)
- 3. accepted versions (author's final peer-reviewed drafts)
- 4. published versions (publisher-created files)
Deposited items may include:
- Items are individually tagged with:
- 1. their version type and date.
- 2. their peer-review status.
- 3. their publication status.
- Concerning depositors, quality & copyright
- 1. Items may only be deposited by academic staff, registered students, and employees of the institution
- 2. Authors may only submit their own work for archiving.
- 3. Eligible depositors must deposit bibliographic metadata for all their publications.
- 4. Eligible depositors must deposit full texts of all their publications, although they may delay making them publicly visible to comply with publishers' embargos.
- 5. The administrator only vets items for the eligibility of authors/depositors, and relevance to the scope of STBA JIA Institutional Repository
- 6. The validity and authenticity of the content of submissions is the sole responsibility of the depositor.
- 7. Items may not be deposited until any publishers' or funders' embargo period has expired.
- 8. Any copyright violations are entirely the responsibility of the authors/depositors.
- 1. No retention period defined.
- 2. STBA JIA Repository will try to ensure continued readability and accessibility.
- 3. STBA JIA Institutional Repository regularly backs up its files according to current best practice.
- 4. Items may not normally be removed from STBA JIA Institutional Repository.
- 5. Acceptable reasons for withdrawal include:
- Journal publishers' rules
- Proven copyright violation or plagiarism
- Legal requirements and proven violations
- National Security
- 6. Withdrawn items are not deleted, but are removed from public view.
- 7. Withdrawn items' identifiers/URLs are not retained.
- 8. URLs will continue to point to 'tombstone' citations, to avoid broken links and to retain item histories, with: a link to a replacement version, where available
- 9. The metadata of withdrawn items will not be searchable.
- 10. If necessary, an updated version may be deposited. The item's persistent URL will always link to the latest version.
- 11. No closure policy defined.