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General Guidelines for Scholars' Bank


Liaisons for each community should consult with the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee for establishing a new community or collection or for revising community policies. The following guidelines are recommendations for best practice, developed by the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee. More detail is available on the Scholars' Bank Policies page.

General Guidelines:

  1. Scholars' Bank is a repository for scholarly literature, communication, and research results for University of Oregon faculty, researchers, staff, and students. Materials submitted should be of a scholarly nature or be in support of the scholarly mission of the University.

  2. Materials submitted should be the intellectual property of the author, the department, or the University and not under any copyright restrictions imposed by a third party.

  3. Materials should be submitted to Scholars' Bank either by one of the authors listed on the material, or by an appointed agent of one of the authors. The Libraries will act as the agent of the author(s) or community, when requested. When an agent acting under the direction of an author submits materials, there should be an explicit statement that the author wishes her or his work to be stored in the repository.

  4. There is no formal limit to the size of items submitted to and stored in Scholars' Bank. However, before submitting an item exceeding 1 Gigabyte in size, the Community Liaison should contact the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee.

  5. Some collections will require approval of submissions by a Community Liaison. Each designated representative reviews all items submitted to the Scholars' Bank Community that he or she oversees. If review of each item is not a realistic goal due to the size of the collection or due to time constraints, the representative should carefully review the first few items submitted by each member of the Community. The representative should continue periodically to review selected items to ensure that community policies are being followed and that appropriate metadata is being provided.

  6. When a new Scholars' Bank Community is established, a Metadata Librarian from MSDP will review the first few items submitted. Based on that review, the Metadata Librarian may recommend changes to the Scholars' Bank Liaison.

  7. The Steering Committee reserves the right to change these guidelines, to make formal policies, or to terminate the project. Should Scholars' Bank ever be terminated, materials will be returned to their authors or their communities.

  8. MSDP and the Steering Committee reserve the right to remove items from the Scholars' Bank if notified by a third party of potential copyright infringement. In such cases, authors and communities will be notified.

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Maintained by the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee: scholars@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 03/20/2007