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Posting papers, presentations, or any other work in Scholars' Bank does not mean that you give up your copyright. Authors who submit their work to Scholars' Bank retain the copyright to their work, unless they explicitly give it away to a third party. The University of Oregon Libraries do not seek nor claim copyright on any of the works submitted to Scholars' Bank. The Libraries ask all authors to agree to a non-exclusive distribution license, which means that authors may make other copies of their work available on other web sites or through other means without obtaining permission from the Libraries. They may also formally publish their work, in the same form or in a revised form, without obtaining permission from the Libraries.
As an author, you may set conditions on the re-use of your materials in Scholars' Bank by affixing permission and copyright statements to the items. Depositing your work in Scholars' Bank automatically provides a time and date stamp that will verify your expression of an idea or document your research at a given point in time.
Some authors are concerned that depositing their work in Scholars' Bank might violate copyright agreements that they have with their publishers. In reality, more and more commercial publishers are recognizing authors' rights to post preprints of their work online; many also allow authors to make postprints available online. This is true even of some of the largest commercial publishers. If you would like to know where your publisher stands on this issue, visit the Sherpa Web site at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php and search under the name of your publisher. If your publisher is not listed in the Sherpa database, the library would be happy to help you investigate this issue with your publisher. It is not unusual for you to already have permission to post your work in Scholars' Bank without having to negotiate a special agreement with your publisher.
Maintained by the Scholars' Bank Steering Committee: scholars@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 08/23/2006