Why is a deposit license required?

The OUR@Oakland repository supports the long‐term preservation of 
e‐documents, and free access to them. To undertake this role, the 
administrators of the repository need permission to
store, copy and manipulate the material in order to ensure that it 
can be preserved and made available in the future.

This Deposit Agreement is designed to give repository administrators 
the right to do this, and to confirm that the depositor has the right
 to submit the material to the repository. The License is 
non‐exclusive, and the depositor does not give away any of their 
rights to the repository.

Your right to publish your work

Rights granted to OUR@Oakland (OUR) through this agreement are 
non‐exclusive. You are free to publish the Work in its present or 
future version(s) elsewhere and no ownership is assumed by the 
repository when storing the e‐document.

Depositing with the OUR@Oakland institutional repository

By accepting this agreement, you (the author(s), copyright owner or
 assignee), grant a nonexclusive license to OUR that authorizes the 
following:

a) You are the author, copyright holder or assignee and have 
authority to make this agreement, and give OUR the right to publish 
the Work in a repository.

b) That the Work is original and does not, to the best of your 
knowledge infringe upon anyone’s copyright, trademark, patent or
 other rights whatsoever of any person.

Permissions given to the repository

OUR shall have rights to reproduce, distribute, display and perform 
this work in any format via any medium throughout the world for 
educational, research and scientific non‐profit uses for the lifetime
 of the repository, or based upon an agreed time span. OUR can also 
translate the Work if necessary to any medium or format and may keep
 more than one copy for purposes of security, back‐up and 
preservation.

Withdrawing your work

You may make a request to the administrator that the Work be removed
 at any point in the future. Equally, OUR@Oakland reserves the right 
to remove the Work for any professional, administrative or legal
 reason. A metadata record indicating the Work was stored in the
repository will remain visible in perpetuity.

Disclaimer

While every care will be taken to preserve the e‐document in 
accordance with our preservation policy, OUR is not liable for loss 
or damage to the e‐print or other data while it is stored within the 
repository.

In the event of a breach of intellectual property rights, or other
 laws including defamation OUR@Oakland, Kresge Library or Oakland 
University is not under any obligation to take legal action on behalf
 of the depositor, original author, or other rights holders, or to 
accept liability for any legal action arising from any such breaches.

Definition & terms

In this license document:

•‘Work’: means the e‐document being deposited including but not 
limited to abstract, text, images and related data.
•‘E‐Document’: means any item of intellectual property stored in an 
electronic format.
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By signing you are acknowledging that you have read the Deposit 
Agreement and understand your rights as an author(s), copyright owner 
or assignee and you understand the extent of the permissions you are 
granting OUR@Oakland. You represent that you have the right to grant
 the rights contained in this agreement and that your submission does
 not, to the best of your knowledge, infringe upon anyone's copyright.