AsPredicted: Terms of use
Terms of Use
(last updated: 2017 03 15)
1. All AsPredicted submissions remain private until actively made public by a participating author (an author who actively approved it through the system).
2. No changes can be made to a pre-registration once it has been created, except to update email addresses of a participating author (and only for still private pre-registrations).
3. Private pre-registrations are, by default, viewable only by their participating authors, but see points 4 and 5 below.
4. If a participating author creates an anonymous .pdf of their pre-registration (e.g., to share with reviewers from a peer-reviewed journal),
the pre-registration becomes viewable by anyone with access to the associated URL. AsPredicted.org does not actively disseminate such URL
but takes no active role in preventing their dissemination by 3rd parties (e.g., a reviewer for a journal who receives such link could share it with others).
5. We have several algorithms that routinely run analyses on private and public submissions seeking to identify possible abuse
and errors. When a pattern deserving closer attention is identified, members of the AsPredicted team are notified and at least
one member reads portions or the totality of the suspected submissions; if no obvious benign explanation for the activity flagged
by the algorithm is identified, that member of the AsPredicted team emails the participating authors asking for an explanation.
If no satisfactory explanation is provided, a disclaimer may be added to the public .pdf (if already public), and the corresponding
private pre-registrations may be blocked from being made public. Moreover, suspicious activity may lead AsPredicted.org to block
involved authors from creating new pre-registrations. So far, all instances flagged by the algorithms have had benign explanations.
6. Currently there is no search function for public pre-registrations; thus, even public pre-registrations are only viewable by
those who know the corresponding URL. This may change in the future without notice. Moreover, no action is taken to prevent
third parties (e.g., search engines) from indexing public pre-registrations. Authors should assume eventually a public pre-registration
will be findable via a web search.
7. AsPredicted.org may share the entire stock of public pre-registrations with 3rd parties upon request, for example, with researchers
conducting meta-science research on pre-registrations.
8. AsPredited.org will not share private pre-registrations with 3rd parties, except in the context of formal investigations of
academic misconduct by a university or granting agency, of if required by law.
9. Public pre-registrations are automatically and permanently archived in the webarchive.org
