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            Domain Name: IFLA.ORG
Registrar: InterNetX GmbH
Domain Status: client transfer prohibited
Registry Expiry Date: 2030-02-22T05:00:00Z
Creation Date: 1998-02-23T05:00:00Z
Updated Date: 2024-07-22T11:40:42.045Z
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>>> Last update of RDAP database: 2026-06-09T06:48:26Z         

			# The URL to the DSpace sitemaps
# XML sitemap is listed first as it is preferred by most search engines
Sitemap: https://repository.ifla.org/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://repository.ifla.org/sitemap_index.html

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# Default Access Group
# (NOTE: blank lines are not allowable in a group record)
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User-agent: *
# Disable access to Discovery search and filters; admin pages; processes; submission; workspace; workflow & profile page
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /admin/*
Disallow: /processes
Disallow: /submit
Disallow: /workspaceitems
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /workflowitems
# Crawlers should be able to access entity pages, but not the facet search links present on entity pages
Disallow: /entities/*?f

# Optionally uncomment the following line ONLY if sitemaps are working
# and you have verified that your site is being indexed correctly.
# Disallow: /browse/*
#
# If you have configured DSpace (Solr-based) Statistics to be publicly
# accessible, then you may not want this content to be indexed
# Disallow: /statistics
#
# You also may wish to disallow access to the following paths, in order
# to stop web spiders from accessing user-based content
# Disallow: /contact
# Disallow: /feedback
# Disallow: /forgot
# Disallow: /login
# Disallow: /register


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# Section for misbehaving bots
# The following directives to block specific robots were borrowed from Wikipedia's robots.txt
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# advertising-related bots:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow: /

# Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have
# unless they're feeding search engines.
User-agent: UbiCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: DOC
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zao
Disallow: /

# Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy
# entire sites. Please obey robots.txt.
User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zealbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: Fetch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZIP
Disallow: /

User-agent: linko
Disallow: /

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu
Disallow: /

User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /

User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZyBORG
Disallow: /

User-agent: Download Ninja
Disallow: /

# Misbehaving: requests much too fast:
User-agent: fast
Disallow: /

#
# If your DSpace is going down because of someone using recursive wget,
# you can activate the following rule.
#
# If your own faculty is bringing down your dspace with recursive wget,
# you can advise them to use the --wait option to set the delay between hits.
#
#User-agent: wget
#Disallow: /

#
# The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved.
#
User-agent: grub-client
Disallow: /

#
# Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but...
#
User-agent: k2spider
Disallow: /

#
# Hits many times per second, not acceptable
# http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html
User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /

# A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit
# http://www.webreaper.net/
User-agent: WebReaper
Disallow: /
        

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