Terms of Service

AcademicOrbit is a free, non-commercial academic network run by Md. Abdur Rahman Sizan, a student at Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST), Bangladesh. It lets researchers share their work, decide who reads their full papers, find collaborators and mentors, message each other and work together in workspaces.

• You must be 18 years old or older.
• Give accurate information, and be honest in your profile about who you are and where you study or work.
• One person, one account. Do not share your account or create accounts for other people.
• Keep your password secret. You are responsible for what happens in your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.

• You keep the rights to what you post. You allow AcademicOrbit to store, copy and show it to the people you choose, only to run the service. This permission ends when your account is deleted, except for copies people made themselves, such as files they downloaded. To have a single post, comment or message removed before then, write to us.
• Only post what you have the right to share. Many publishers do not allow sharing the published version of a paper: check your publishing agreement, and upload it as “Request required for full paper” where needed. Files attached to posts (other than such restricted papers) can be opened by anyone who has their web address; see the Privacy Policy.
• If you believe something on AcademicOrbit infringes your rights, report it or write to us. We remove it when the claim is valid.

• Plagiarism, made-up or falsified data, or claiming authorship you do not have.
• Harassment, threats, hate speech, sexual or violent content, or anything illegal.
• Spam, advertising, or messages nobody asked for.
• Collecting other members’ information, including email addresses, by copying, scraping or automated tools, or creating accounts automatically.
• Sharing someone else’s unpublished work, or a paper you received through an access request, without their permission.
• Pretending to be another person or organisation.
• Uploading malware, or trying to get around security, access rules or limits. If you find a security problem, tell us and do not use it.

When an author approves your access request, you may read and use the paper for your own research and study. Do not pass it on without the author’s permission. Collaboration requests, connections and workspaces are between members; AcademicOrbit is not a party to agreements members make with each other.

Use “Report post” to tell us about content that breaks these Terms. Admins may remove content and close accounts that break them. When a post is removed, its author is told why. Admin actions are recorded.

Its answers are written by an AI model from public information about published papers. They can be wrong or incomplete, so check the cited papers before relying on them. Questions go to Google’s free AI service, which may keep and read them: do not type personal, confidential or unpublished work into the assistant. Journal figures shown with papers are open metrics from OpenAlex, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Some features use outside services: Google (Gemini, for the research assistant), ORCID, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Jitsi Meet and Cloudflare. Their own terms apply when you use them. See the Privacy Policy for what each one receives.

AcademicOrbit is provided free and “as is”. We work to keep it running and your data safe, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of errors, and features may change. Keep your own copies of important work.

As far as the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect losses, lost data or lost opportunities caused by using AcademicOrbit. Nothing in these Terms takes away rights you have under the law that cannot be taken away.

You can delete your account at any time: Profile → Delete my account. We may close an account that breaks these Terms. If AcademicOrbit itself closes, we will give notice where we can, so you can download your data first.

If we change these Terms in a way that matters, we change the date at the top and ask you to accept the new version before you continue.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Bangladesh.

Questions about these Terms: contact@academicorbit.com.