Privacy policy for the University of Bergen Library

Privacy statement for Brage (Norwegian and English)

This statement explains how the University of Bergen Library collects and processes personal data in Bergen Open Access Publishing. The purpose of the privacy policy is to provide information about UB's processing of personal data.

About BOAP

BOAP is a publishing service hosted by the University of Bergen Library. BOAP offers researchers and research groups at the University of Bergen a free service for digital, open access publishing of journals and series.

The lawful basis and purpose of processing personal data

The journals and series hosted by BOAP collect, process, store and publish articles. Personal data is collected to make these operations possible. This includes information to enable the editorial process, information to readers on authorship, information about members of the editorial board and collecting aggregated data on readers for statistical purposes. The basis for processing personal data is user consent.

Processed data

The Open Journal Systems software used in the service, processes personal data in several ways. Personal data in the service includes a) User registration data, b) Contributor metadata information, and c) General visitor information.

a) User data

The following personal information are mandatory and stored when users register:

• First name
• Last name
• Affiliation
• Country
• Email address
• Username
• Password

By editing the user profile, registered users can also provide:

• Middle name
• Salutation
• Website
• Phone number
• ORCID iD
• Academic interests
• Bio statement
• Postal address
• Signature
• Profile image

b) Contributor Metadata Information

When submitting a manuscript with several contributors, the corresponding author will register the contributors. In general, the contributors are co-authors.  

The following personal information on contributors are mandatory and are stored:

• First name
• Last name
• E-mail address
• Country

In addition, it is possible to register:

• Middle name
• Website
• ORCID iD
• Affiliation
• Bio statement

c) General visitor information

The service collects general visitor information for statistical purposes. The service also uses Google Analytics to collect statistics.

Exchange with third parties

Contributor data for published manuscripts is transferred on a regular basis to other services designed to index and disseminate scientific publications. Contributor data for published manuscripts is also openly available for harvesting through an OAI-PMH service. Examples of services used are DOAJ and Crossref. Indexing services used by the journals may vary. The publications will also by default be openly available for all to access and read. Of personal information, author names, affiliation and biographical information of the authors, information on editors and editorial boards and sometimes information on peer reviewers are shared.

Security measures

Login and authentication

System users and participants in editorial processes need to log in to BOAP. Users are authenticated as local users.

Securing the information

All data traffic in and out of BOAP is encrypted over HTTPS. Administrator user information is stored in a closed database internally in the application.

Privacy Statement - ORIA

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