Content Mining & AI Access Policy

Pandecta Research Law Journal recognizes the growing importance of computational analysis, text and data mining (TDM), and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the advancement of legal research. This policy outlines the terms under which automated systems, researchers, and commercial entities (including AI developers) may access and mine the content published in this journal.

1. Open Access and Licensing
All articles published in Pandecta Research Law Journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License. This means that content miners and AI systems are permitted to copy, extract, and analyze the published content, provided they adhere to the terms of this license.

2. Permitted Uses by AI and Content Miners
Subject to the licensing terms, users are permitted to:

  • Perform text and data mining (TDM) on the published articles.

  • Use the content for academic, non-commercial, or commercial research and development.

  • Include the content in datasets used for training or fine-tuning AI models.

3. Conditions for Access and Use
When mining or utilizing content from this journal, the following conditions must be met:

  • Attribution: Users must provide appropriate credit to the original authors and Pandecta Research Law Journal. This includes citing the article's DOI and acknowledging the journal as the original source of publication.

  • ShareAlike: If the mined content is transformed, remixed, or used to create derivative datasets that are made publicly available, those derivatives must be distributed under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

  • No Server Disruption: Automated data collection (e.g., web scraping or crawling) must not negatively impact the performance, security, or accessibility of the journal’s website. Users must adhere to reasonable rate limits.

  • Privacy Protection: Content miners must respect the privacy of research participants. Any personally identifiable information or confidential legal data that is present in the articles (as outlined in our Research Ethics Policy) must not be extracted, processed, or used in a manner that violates privacy laws.

4. Technical Access
To facilitate responsible content mining, the journal provides metadata for all published articles via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The OAI endpoint can be accessed at: https://journal.unnes.ac.id/journals/pandecta/oai.