Corrections and Right of Reply Policy

• 1.1 Errors are corrected openly and the record of the correction is kept. Material is never changed silently in a way that alters its meaning.
• 1.2 This Policy applies with the Editorial Policy, which governs editions of Reports.

• 2.1 Write to the contact form with the address of the page or the identifier of the edition, finding, dataset or record, what is wrong, and the evidence or source that shows it.
• 2.2 The request is acknowledged with a reference and assessed against the evidence. The person who made it is told the decision and its reasons.

• 3.1 A clarification makes the meaning clearer without changing a finding. A correction fixes an error of fact, number, citation or attribution. An update adds new evidence that has become available. A retraction or withdrawal removes a finding or a document that cannot stand.
• 3.2 Every correction, update and retraction of a finding, an edition or a dataset is stated in a notice on the material, with the date and what changed. A new version receives a new version number and, where the material has a DOI, a new version of the deposit; earlier versions stay available, marked as superseded or retracted.
• 3.3 Typographical and formatting fixes that change no meaning are made without a notice.

• 4.1 An error that comes from a data provider is reported to that provider. The material is corrected at the next update of the provider’s data, or annotated until then.

• 5.1 A person, an organisation or a public authority that is named or directly concerned by a finding may submit a reply. A reply that is relevant and within the limits of the Code of Conduct is published with the material, or linked from it, and the finding is reviewed in the light of any new evidence it contains.

• 6.1 Complaints that are not requests for correction follow the Complaints and integrity reporting procedure. Questions about personal information follow the privacy documents.

Prepared for review by legal counsel before adoption.

• EmailGateway GW-STDSend it from this pageEvidence, a correction, a case, a method, a review, a translation or profile input. It arrives tagged with this page, so the editor who owns it receives it.
• ZenodoOpen depositDeposit it and submit to the communityPublish your own record on Zenodo with your ORCID iD, then submit it to the Reports community there. Curators review it; the DOI stays yours.
• ReportsNexus StandardsSee every way to contributeThe contribution types, how each is reviewed, what credit you receive, the licence and what is never accepted.

Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share. A contribution is reviewed before use; sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never buys a finding.