Terms of Use

Purpose of the Platform

The EPS Library serves as a digital research library and scholarly information infrastructure for SGEM WORLD SCIENCE publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and related fields.

Its purpose is to preserve scholarly output, improve discoverability, support citation, assist academic visibility, connect researchers with scientific content, and provide long-term access to publication records and metadata.

The platform is intended for authors, readers, researchers, librarians, universities, academies, scientific institutions, academic partners, and other users interested in SGEM WORLD SCIENCE publications.

Permitted Use

Users may access, read, search, download, cite, and use available materials for personal, academic, educational, scientific, and research purposes, provided that all applicable copyright, citation, access, and use requirements are respected.

Users may share links to publication records, DOI pages, and official EPS Library pages, provided that the source, authorship, DOI, and bibliographic information are preserved.

Users are expected to use the platform in a way that supports academic integrity, responsible research communication, proper citation, and respect for intellectual property.

Prohibited Use

Users must not:

• attempt unauthorized access to restricted areas, accounts, files, servers, or systems
• copy, reproduce, republish, redistribute, translate, adapt, or commercially use materials without written permission where such permission is required
• remove author names, DOI information, citations, copyright statements, metadata, publisher information, or other notices
• present EPS Library content, publications, metadata, or files as their own work
• use automated extraction, scraping, crawling, harvesting, or mass downloading tools in a way that overloads, damages, copies, or systematically extracts the platform content
• upload, transmit, or distribute unlawful, misleading, abusive, harmful, malicious, or technically damaging content
• use the platform for spam, fraud, phishing, unauthorized advertising, data misuse, or technical abuse
• misuse the names, logos, trademarks, visual identity, publications, or digital records of SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society
• alter, manipulate, misrepresent, or falsify scholarly records, publication metadata, citation information, DOI links, author information, or publication details
• include EPS Library materials in another website, repository, database, platform, book, proceedings, course pack, commercial product, or digital service without prior written permission where such use is not expressly allowed

Academic Integrity and Citation

All scholarly materials accessed through the EPS Library must be cited properly.

Users are responsible for following the citation standards required by their discipline, institution, journal, publisher, conference, or academic context.

The availability of a publication in the EPS Library does not remove the obligation to acknowledge the original authors, source, publication title, DOI, proceedings/book information, publisher, and other relevant bibliographic details.

Citation tools, recommended citation formats, DOI links, and metadata records are provided to support accurate referencing. Users remain responsible for verifying citation style requirements in their own academic or institutional context.

Copyright and Use of Materials

All publications, proceedings papers, books, metadata records, PDF files, covers, images, layouts, database structures, digital records, and other materials available through the EPS Library are protected by copyright and related intellectual property rights.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the rights for published SGEM WORLD SCIENCE proceedings materials, books, conference publications, digital records, and related library content are held, managed, or administered by SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society and/or its authorized publishing structures.

Access to a publication through the EPS Library does not grant permission for unrestricted reuse, republication, redistribution, translation, adaptation, commercial use, systematic copying, text/data extraction, or reproduction in other platforms, websites, repositories, databases, books, proceedings, teaching materials, digital services, or commercial products.

Users may access, read, download, cite, and share links to publication records for personal, academic, research, and citation purposes, provided that proper bibliographic reference, DOI/link attribution, author names, and publisher information are preserved.

Any reproduction, republication, redistribution, translation, adaptation, large-scale copying, institutional reuse, commercial use, or inclusion of EPS Library materials in another publication, platform, repository, database, website, or service requires prior written permission from SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society.

Authors retain the right to be properly identified and cited as the creators of their scholarly work. However, publication within SGEM WORLD SCIENCE proceedings, books, or conference collections does not automatically grant third parties permission to reuse or redistribute the published version without written authorization.

For permission requests, copyright questions, or institutional reuse inquiries, users must contact SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society through the official contact channels.

Repository Records and Metadata

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society may create, edit, correct, enrich, reorganize, merge, update, or remove repository metadata in order to improve accuracy, discoverability, citation quality, preservation, indexing readiness, technical consistency, and scholarly value.

Metadata may include author names, affiliations, publication titles, abstracts, keywords, DOI links, proceedings information, book information, publication year, research area, language, file descriptions, bibliographic identifiers, citation details, subject classifications, usage indicators, and related scholarly information.

Metadata corrections may be made when errors, duplicates, outdated information, broken links, missing identifiers, or inconsistencies are identified.

Author Access and Personal Accounts

Authors and registered users may receive access credentials for personal or institutional use, depending on registration status, publication status, access rights, or institutional arrangements.

Users are responsible for keeping their login credentials secure and must not share restricted access credentials with unauthorized third parties.

Author access to personal publication records and library services may include access to publication files, citation information, metrics, metadata, and related author-oriented tools, depending on the available functionality and access level.

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society may suspend or restrict access in cases of misuse, technical abuse, unauthorized sharing, copyright violation, or breach of these Terms of Use.

Metrics, Citations and Usage Information

The EPS Library may display publication-related indicators such as views, downloads, citation-related information, online attention, social engagement, or other visibility metrics where such data is available.

Metrics may be collected, imported, synchronized, updated, or enriched from internal library statistics and external scholarly or digital information sources.

Such metrics are provided for informational and visibility purposes. They may change over time and may differ between sources depending on database coverage, update frequency, citation practices, indexing status, and external data policies.

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society does not guarantee that all citations, mentions, downloads, or external indicators will be complete, immediate, identical across sources, or permanently available.

Availability and Technical Operation

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society makes reasonable efforts to keep the EPS Library accessible, stable, secure, and functional.

However, uninterrupted access cannot be guaranteed. The platform may occasionally be unavailable due to maintenance, software updates, technical improvements, server issues, security measures, data migration, hosting problems, or other operational reasons.

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society may modify, update, reorganize, expand, restrict, or temporarily suspend parts of the platform when necessary for technical, editorial, legal, security, preservation, or operational reasons.

Corrections and Content Updates

Users who identify incorrect metadata, missing files, broken links, duplicate records, typographical errors, outdated information, citation issues, DOI problems, or possible copyright concerns are encouraged to contact SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society.

Correction requests will be reviewed according to academic, editorial, legal, technical, and preservation considerations.

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society reserves the right to evaluate, prioritize, accept, reject, or partially implement correction requests depending on the available evidence and the nature of the requested change.

External Links and Third-Party Services

The EPS Library may include links to external platforms such as DOI services, Crossref, indexing databases, publishers, academic institutions, libraries, partner organizations, scholarly profiles, citation services, or other external resources.

These links are provided for reference, citation, discovery, and user convenience.

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society is not responsible for the availability, accuracy, policies, content, services, or technical operation of external websites and third-party platforms.

Limitation of Responsibility

The materials available through the EPS Library are provided for academic, educational, research, informational, and bibliographic purposes.

The opinions, interpretations, research findings, conclusions, recommendations, and statements expressed in individual publications belong to their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society, its committees, partners, editors, reviewers, or affiliated structures.

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society does not guarantee that any publication will be indexed, cited, accepted, used, or recognized by any external database, institution, journal, publisher, evaluator, or academic body.

External indexing, citation coverage, database inclusion, and metadata visibility remain subject to the independent policies, procedures, timelines, and criteria of the respective external services.

Changes to These Terms

SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society may update these Terms of Use when necessary.

The latest version published on this platform applies. Continued use of the EPS Library after updates means that users accept the revised Terms of Use.

Contact

For metadata corrections, publication records, DOI links, library access, copyright permissions, institutional reuse, or other EPS Library-related questions, please contact SGEM WORLD SCIENCE / SWS Scholarly Society through the official contact channels.