Zenodo mission is allow any researcher anywhere in the world to participate in open science. Our focus is to support the long tail of research by provided a home for any research output that does not fit in existing domain-specific repositories, as well as to researchers without dedicated infrastructure.
Our aim is to make sharing and preserving any research output as easy as possible and as open as possible. Zenodo is open for all except for military purposes due to CERN’s convention stating “The Organization shall have no concern with work for military requirements and the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available.”.
Due to Zenodo’s open nature, we’re unfortunately also targeted heavily by spammers seeking to exploit and misuse Zenodo. Spam on Zenodo comes in all flavours - from direct misuse of Zenodo to borderline research-related content. We therefore implement automated and manual spam mitigation and content moderation measures. Zenodo content moderators are not domain experts, and thus cannot evaluate the scientific quality of content published on Zenodo. Thus, in addition to Zenodo's content moderators we provide the Community-feature that allow domain-experts to create curated areas on Zenodo for their area of expertise.
Following is some of the measures we have in place for detecting and removing spam:
- An automated classification system that proactively and retroactively approves, moderates or blocks users. This system is based on heuristics, open data sources, as well as machine learning models trained on past manually labelled content.
- Content/user moderation by human moderators.
- Limiting visibility and distribution of content by non-safelisted users - e.g. prevention of search engine indexing and ranking in search results.