Delivery acceptance. SCOAP3 will monitor the timeliness of delivery for compliance with the 24-hour term as described in Section 3.2.3. Further, SCOAP3 will monitor the Delivery Format of the SCOAP3 Articles and of the metadata for compliance with the criteria enumerated in Section 3.2.2, as well as the License, as set out in the Contract between CERN and the publisher. Finally, SCOAP3 will monitor articles for eligibility by applying the criteria defining a SCOAP3 Article for the Journal concerned. If SCOAP3 does not reject any given article within 21 days of submission to the SCOAP3 Repository, the delivered SCOAP3 Article shall be regarded as accepted and the fees shall be paid to the publisher in accordance with the payment conditions set forth in the Contract. Failure to meet the 24-hour term or to comply with the delivery formats for SCOAP3 Articles and metadata shall entitle SCOAP3 to apply penalties as set forth in the Contract.
