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Notice and takedown
How to ask us to remove or correct hosted material, what happens when you do, and how quickly we act. For authors, publishers and rights holders.
We host scientific papers written by other people. We do this under the open licences their publishers applied, and we check each licence individually before a paper goes online. Even so, we may occasionally get something wrong — a licence may have been recorded incorrectly, changed after publication, or never have permitted hosting in the first place.
If that has happened with your work, tell us and we will remove it. You do not need a lawyer, a formal notice, or a reason.
Who this is for
- Authors who would rather we did not host a copy of their paper, for any reason.
- Publishers and rights holders who believe a paper is hosted outside the terms of its licence.
- Anyone who spots an error in how we have described, credited or licensed a paper.
How to contact us
Write to erasmus@evec.org.gr, or use our contact form. It helps if you can include:
- the title of the paper, or a link to the page on our site;
- what you would like us to do — remove it, correct it, or change how it is credited;
- who you are in relation to the work, if you are comfortable saying.
You do not have to prove ownership before we act. If a request looks genuine, we will act first and ask questions afterwards.
What we will do, and how quickly
| Within 5 working days | We acknowledge your message and tell you who is handling it. |
|---|---|
| Within 10 working days | We remove or correct the material, or explain in writing why we believe the licence permits what we are doing. |
| If we disagree | The material stays offline while we discuss it. We do not restore anything until the question is settled. |
Removal means the file and its page are taken down and the paper is removed from our search index. We keep a short internal note of what was removed and why, so the same paper is not added again by mistake.
What we do not do
- We do not argue about whether you are entitled to ask. If you are the author, that is enough for us.
- We do not charge anything, and we do not ask you to sign anything.
- We do not publish the names or contact details of people who write to us.
How we try to get it right in the first place
Every paper in the archive was checked against the licence recorded by its publisher and by OpenAlex, the open index of scholarly works. Where the two disagreed, we applied the more restrictive of the two. Papers whose licence we could not establish are not hosted at all — they are simply left out.
Papers under a No-Derivatives licence are hosted unchanged and cited, but we do not publish rewritten or simplified versions of them. Each record page states plainly which licence applies and what it allows.
We host the publisher’s own file, unaltered. We do not re-typeset, re-paginate or edit the papers in any way.
Co-funded by the European Union.
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