Policies
The policies that define how ORI registers, preserves, updates and corrects the records of participating publications, and how it protects people and data. They apply equally to every participating organization and journal.
- Permanent
- Identifiers are never changed, deleted or reused.
- Transparent
- Every change is versioned; corrections are public.
- Equal
- The same rules for every participant.
- Protective
- Minimal personal data, under the LGPD.
Terms of use
These Terms of Use govern access to and use of ORI — Oxton Research Identifier, its website, dashboard, public and write APIs, OAI-PMH service, connectors and optional modules, operated by Oxton Education. By creating an account, accepting these terms when signing up, registering records, using a credential or otherwise using the service, you agree to be bound by them. If you act for an organization, you accept them on its behalf.
Read the policy → Updated outubro 16, 2026Registration policy
How ORI identifiers are requested, assigned, corrected and updated, and why they are never reused.
Read the policy → Updated outubro 12, 2026Persistence policy
ORI is committed to the permanence of the identifiers it issues and to the preservation of the records they point to.
Read the policy → Updated outubro 16, 2026Metadata updates
How the metadata of a record is updated, versioned and kept, so that every change is traceable and nothing is lost.
Read the policy → Updated outubro 12, 2026Retractions and corrections
ORI follows the principle that the scholarly record must be corrected transparently, without erasing what was published, in line with good publication practice (COPE).
Read the policy → Updated outubro 12, 2026Security
How ORI protects the registry, the accounts of the people who operate it and the data it keeps.
Read the policy → Updated outubro 12, 2026Privacy and data protection
ORI processes personal data in accordance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD, Law No. 13,709/2018). The controller is Oxton Education, which operates ORI.
Read the policy → Updated outubro 12, 2026