1. INTRODUCTION

The Repository of psychological instruments in Serbian (hereafter called “REPOPSI”) is an open repository of psychological measures, scales, tests, and other research instruments. REPOPSI is maintained by the Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (hereafter called “LIRA”).

2. DEFINITIONS

“OSF”: A free and open source research platform designed to help support researchers practice open science.

“Project”: An individual or collaborative workspace on the OSF that may have embedded within it subproject(s) or component(s).

“Component”: A sub-project, that is a folder of the Project on the OSF, with custom privacy settings.

“Passive User”: Persons who may use the OSF solely as an information resource without any ability to change or modify any Project content.

3. TERMS OF USE

REPOPSI is a public Project on the OSF. The instruments available in full in REPOPSI are deposited in their own public Component. These Terms of Use use the term “REPOPSI” to refer to the Project and each individual Component within it.

The access to and use of the REPOPSI are governed by the terms and conditions defined in these Terms of Use. By accessing or using REPOPSI, the user agrees to abide by these Terms of Use, which can be updated or modified.

REPOPSI Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use, explains how REPOPSI treats the user’s data and privacy when they access or use REPOPSI. By accessing or using REPOPSI, the user accepts REPOPSI Privacy Policy.

The access to and use of REPOPSI implies agreement with the following terms:

  1. Users shall respect the Terms of Use of the OSF. All REPOPSI users may be Passive Users of the OSF.
  2. REPOPSI is provided free of charge for non-commercial research, educational, clinical, and informational use.
  3. REPOPSI will be updated or otherwise modified on a regular basis. The administrators of REPOPSI reserve the right to alter or delete information without notice.
  4. All information is provided “as-is” and the user shall hold REPOPSI, information providers contributing data to REPOPSI, as well as LIRA (including individual LIRA researchers) free and harmless in connection with the use of such information. In particular, REPOPSI and LIRA do not guarantee that the translations found in REPOPSI are the only and/or official translations of the original instruments.
  5. Users shall respect copyright and applicable license conditions. In particular, the use of instruments available in full in REPOPSI is subject to the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license; giving appropriate credit means that the authors of the original and the translated/adapted version of the instruments need to be cited whenever the instrument is used. Download and use of information from REPOPSI does not amount to a transfer of intellectual property.
  6. Information obtained from the REPOPSI metadata may be reused under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license unless explicitly specified otherwise.

4. QUESTIONS

Please contact lira@f.bg.ac.rs if you have any questions or comments with respect to REPOPSI; if you are unsure whether your intended use meets these terms; or, if you want anything in REPOPSI removed or changed. Support is provided in English and Serbian.

These Terms of Use were last updated on June 16, 2023.