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Short Title
M.5-9 Documents are only deleted as an exception and subsequently documented publicly under the persistent URL of the original document.
Source Documnent
DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services 2019
Source Document Link
https://doi.org/10.18452/21759
Publishing Organisation
DINI Working Group "Electronic Publishing"
Date of Publication
2020-08-21
Topic
Sustainability/ funding/ business-model
Addressed Stakeholders
data service providers
Keywords
deletion, persistance
Text
This could be the case should the publication constitute a criminal offense. In all cases, withdrawal or locking of the document is to be preferred over deletion. It is advised not to delete duplicates but to redirect one document’s URL to that of the other.