Kate, I agree to have my papers put in the digital archive. Laura Barth ------------------- > Dear Laura, > > I am an intern working for the University of Oregon > Libraries. I'm writing to inform you of an exciting > new service that has been set up by the Clark > Honors College to provide an opportunity to > showcase high-quality student work. A digital > archive of papers produced for the Clark Honors > College course HC 421 Honors College Arts and > Letters Colloquium: The University in Peace and War > has been established at: > https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/309 > Papers loaded into the archive are findable via Google > and other standard web search engines. Each item > in the archive has its own stable URL so you can cite > it to friends, employers, or graduate schools as > evidence of your work. > > If you look, two papers that you prepared for that course has > already been loaded into the archive. Professor Clark > gave us copies of class papers for us to load. You can see > them at the following links: > > http://hdl.handle.net/1794/327 > > http://hdl.handle.net/1794/364 > > I am writing now to ask for your permission to archive > and present your papers in this site. Please read the enclosed > license agreement. If you agree, reply to this email (PLEASE > INCLUDE THE FULL TEXT OF THIS EMAIL IN YOUR > REPLY) indicating that you agree. We are not asking you > to turn over copyright to us. We ask only for permission to > make your work publicly available on the Web and preserve > it for the future. If you do not want your papers in the archive, > let me know and we will remove them immediately. > > Regards, > > Kate Ball > Digital Library Intern > University of Oregon Libraries > ************************************************ > > Authors who submit their work to Scholars' Bank retain the copyright to > their work, unless they explicitly give it away to a third party. 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