Last revised on December 10th, 2019
This Gateway is operated by D4Science.org. Some of the technologies, services, and procedures, hereafter referred as Content of the Gateway, powering it have been produced with the co-funding of the European Commission. The content of the Gateway is the sole responsibility of the D4Science.org Team and cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission.
Information and content accessible through the Gateway are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. The D4Science.org Team makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information on this Gateway. The D4Science.org Team reserves the right to alter, limit or discontinue any part of this service at its discretion. Under no circumstances shall the D4Science.org Team be liable for any loss, damage, liability or expense suffered that is claimed to result from the use of information posted on this site or through its web services, including without limitation, any fault, error, omission, interruption or delay.
Hyperlinks to non-D4Science.org websites do not imply any official endorsement of or responsibility on the part of D4Science.org for the opinions, ideas, content or products presented at these locations, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. The sole purpose of links to non-D4Science.org sites is to indicate further information available on related topics. The information is provided on the basis that users accessing this Gateway assume responsibility for assessing its relevance, accuracy and suitability for application.
The content and information made available through this Gateway are available under terms described in the metadata accompanying each product (e.g. “license” or "constraints" field). Except where otherwise noted (i.e. in case of primary requirement to comply with the content provider’s policy) this is the Creative Commons License.
All derivative products produced and made publicly available through this Gateway are licensed under the Creative Commons License CC BY-SA except where otherwise noted.
Any work produced by making use of assets made available by the D4Science infrastructure should acknowledge the support received and give credits. Please include the following reference:
M. Assante et al. (2019) Enacting open science by D4Science. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 101: 555-563 10.1016/j.future.2019.05.063
Furthermore, if you wish to cite / acknowledge a A Virtual Research Environment, a Service, a Dataset or Method please refer to the following table.
YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF THE GATEWAY, A VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT OR A SERVICE IN ANY WAY SIGNIFIES THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS.
Our Services are very diverse, so additional terms or requirements apply. Additional terms are available with the relevant Services, and those additional terms become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services.
By accessing or using the Gateway, a Virtual Research Environment or a Service you also declare that you have the legal authority to accept the Terms on behalf of yourself and any party you represent in connection with your use of the Gateway, a Virtual Research Environment or a Service. If you do not agree to the Terms, you are not authorized to use the Gateway, a Virtual Research Environment or a Service.
Please read them carefully.
Any Gateway exploiting resources of the D4Science Infrastructure and operated by D4Science.org is the access point to products and services identified by the community requesting it.
Upon registration to the Gateway Service, the user can immediately use the storage space via the Workspace Service, the Social Netwroking Collaborative Platform including the Email Service to send/receive content to other registered users, the Social Service to share and read news and posts with your connections and the Notification Service for user notifications, and the Catalogue Service to browse available datasets, methods, and services therein published. You can also apply to one or more moderated or public Virtual Research Environments offering one or more additional services.
All the Services made accessible through this Gateway are also accessible through APIs by specifying the secure token generated with the registration and specialised for each Virtual Research Environment the user is member of. Starting from January 1st 2020 the APIs are exploitable only by using the secure and encrypted communication protocol over a computer network, HTTPS, while the support for the deprecated communication protocol over a computer network, HTTP, is definitely terminated December 31st 2019.
You own the information, content, and method you provide to the D4Science Infrastructure through this Gateway under this Agreement, and may request its deletion at any time, unless you have shared information content, or method with others and they have not deleted it, or it was copied or stored by other users. Additionally, you grant D4Science.org a nonexclusive, worldwide, assignable, sublicensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyse, and use in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information, content, or method you explicitly share or publish, directly or indirectly to D4Science.org, including, but not limited to, any user generated content, techniques or data to the services without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties to serve the purpose of providing the service required by the User. Any information you submit to us is at your own risk of loss as noted in the following sections of this Agreement.
By sharing information, content, or method to us, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to share the information, content, or method and that the information, content, or method is accurate, not confidential, and not in violation of any contractual restrictions or other third-party rights.
You must promptly notify the D4Science.org Team of any breach of security related to the Services, including but not limited to unauthorized use of your password or account. To help ensure the security of your password or account, please sign out from your account at the end of each session.
The D4Science.org Team, hereafter referred ad D4Science.org, may terminate your account in accordance with the terms of service if you fail to login to your account for a period of SIX months. Moreover, if you are found to be in violation of our policies at any time, as determined by the D4Science.org in its sole discretion, we may warn you or suspend or terminate your account.
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Conditions of use |
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Posting Content or Method
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You can post content or method to any service made accessible through this Gateway only if (a) you created and own the rights to the content or method or you have the owner’s express permission to post the content or method; and (b) the content or method does not infringe any other person’s or entity’s rights (including the copyrights, trademarks, or privacy rights) or violate any applicable laws, this Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, our Community Best Practices, or any other posted policies. D4Science.org can remove content or method for any infringing reason. When you use a service to upload content or register a method into a VRE, you retain the irrevocable, exclusive, worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, display, remix, re-distribute, create derivative works, and syndicate your content or method in any medium and through any service. Only where you have specifically shared, or used a specialized service for sharing content, will your content become part of a derivative work to be licensed under a schema selected by the owner. |
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Sharing Content or Method
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D4Science.org offers sharing and publication at different levels: within a VRE, among different VREs and by publication to data repositories that may be accessible to external users. Each shared content is associated to a copyright license. A CC BY-SA license is proposed if the dataset is obtained with a mash up process from different sources (a true derivative product), any other license (not technically supported by the D4Science Infrastructure) in case of unaltered product shared with other Users/VREs. In both cases the metadata must be filled (if not automatically compiled) and a preferred citation must be indicated. You are responsible for any content or method you post to our Services and the consequences of sharing such content or method with others or the general public. This includes, for example, any personal information, any confidential data or any unofficial data. D4Science.org is not responsible for the consequences of sharing or posting any personal or other information on its services. When you use a Service that allows users to share, transform, readapt, modify, or combine the content or method with other content or methods, you grant D4Science.org and our Users a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide right and license to [use, reproduce, modify, display, remix, perform, distribute, redistribute, adapt, promote, create derivative works, and syndicate] your content or method [in any medium and through any form of technology or distribution] and to permit any derivative works to be licensed under these same license terms. Any user accessing shared content must behave according to the copyright license of the dataset. However, the D4Science Infrastructure does not control or audit access to and / or audit use of shared content. It can therefore not impose a shared policy, but can encourage sharing according to best practices. Sharing content or method within the D4Science infrastructure (i.e. sharing through one or more VREs) will make them accessible only to authorized users, and cannot be accessed from outside. |
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Publishing Content
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The VRE authorized Users can publish content and make it available to the public exposing to general view with no restrictions except for a registration procedure that may be required. Each published set of content is associated to a copyright license. Published content can be accessed by the general public through this Gateway and through dedicated web applications (e.g. web services). |
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Secondary Use of the Content
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Data accessed through this Gateway do not, and should not, include controls over its end use. However, the content owner or authoritative source for the content must retain version control of content accessed. Once the content has been downloaded from the Gateway, D4Science.org cannot vouch for their quality and timeliness. D4Science.org cannot vouch for any analyses conducted with the content retrieved from the Gateway. |
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Derivative Work and Data Citation
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Derivative work should only be produced by complying with the terms and conditions established in the license of the used content. The derivative work is owned by the legitimate copyright holder identified among the contributors co-owning the new product and is the contact point for any use, re-use/re-distribute request. Derivative work may contain content retrieved from the D4Science Infrastructure. Every content should include in its metadata at least a preferred citation, a reference to the infrastructure source dataset and its generation date, and the date that content was accessed or retrieved from the Gateway or any of its services. If the content was a composition of multiple datasets with different citations, the owner of the content should have added that to the relevant metadata. If such derivative work is produced through VREs, the D4Science Infrastructure generates a default provenance metadata, which matches references to sources used for the derivative work and their respective citations. You must clearly state that “D4Science.org cannot vouch for the analyses derived from this content after it has been retrieved from the D4Science Infrastructure”. |
Table 1: Conditions of Use Summary Table