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Is my service eligible for the Research & Scholarship (R&S) Category? The authoritative answer is in the Research & Scholarship (R&S) Category document. You can guage a quick answer, though, by browsing the official list of R&S SPs. There you will find:
If your service overlaps with the above list of Research & Scholarship services, or otherwise fits the criteria in Research & Scholarship (R&S) Category, we encourage you to apply for R&S. Here’s a sequence of steps that will get you there:
If you have questions about R&S, contact us at help@incommon.org.
Prospective R&S SPs should consider the deployment implications of R&S. |
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By definition, a Research & Scholarship service enhances the research and scholarship activities of some subset of the InCommon community. See the REFEDS specification of the Research & Scholarship Entity Category for a precise definition:
Candidates for the Research and Scholarship (R&S) Category are Service Providers that are operated for the purpose of supporting research and scholarship interaction, collaboration or management, at least in part.
R&S Service Providers must meet the following technical requirements:
DisplayName
and an MDUI InformationURL
(two User Interface Elements in metadata).InCommon-certified R&S Service Providers must also meet the following privacy requirements, as do all InCommon Service Providers:
R&S Service Providers must resolve issues of non-compliance within a reasonable period of time from when they become aware of the issue. Failure to do so may result in revocation of their membership in the R&S category.