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Posting work in Scholars' Bank does not mean that you give up your copyright. Authors who submit their research to Scholars' Bank retain the copyright to their work unless they explicitly give it away to a third party. The University of Oregon Libraries does not seek nor claim copyright on any of the works submitted to Scholars' Bank. The Libraries ask 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 formally publish their work without obtaining permission from the Libraries.
Authors may set conditions on the re-use of their materials in Scholars' Bank by affixing permission and copyright statements to the items. Depositing work in Scholars' Bank automatically provides a time and date stamp that will verify the expression of an idea or document 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 and/or postprints of their work online. 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, the library would be happy to help you investigate this issue with your publisher. It is not unusual to find that you already have permission to post your work in an institutional repository without having to negotiate a special agreement with your publisher.
Maintained by the Scholar's Bank Coordinator: scholars@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 04/24/2012
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