Kate, I agree to the license agreement. Thanks, Lauren Haire >===== Original Message From kdball@indiana.edu ===== >Dear Lauren, > >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, a paper 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 >this at the following link: > >http://hdl.handle.net/1794/362 > >I am writing now to ask for your permission to archive >and present your paper 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 paper in the archive, >let me know and we will remove your paper 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. The >University of Oregon Libraries do not seek or claim copyright on any of the >works submitted to Scholars' Bank. > >The following paragraphs reproduce the text of the license agreement that >authors must approve as part of the process of submitting material to >Scholars' Bank. The intent of the license agreement is to give the >Libraries permission to post the material openly on the Web and to take the >necessary steps to preserve the material (preserving the material might >mean that the files will need to be converted to a different or newer >version of a file format if the existing file format or the >hardware/software needed to read it becomes obsolete). If you have >questions, please contact Carol Hixson >(chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu, >346-3064) Head of Metadata and Digital Library Services. > >---------- >NON-EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION LICENSE > > >By signing and submitting this license, you (the author(s) or copyright >owner) grant to the University of Oregon (UO) the non-exclusive right >to reproduce, convert (as defined below), and/or distribute your submission >(including the abstract) worldwide in print and electronic format and >in any medium, including but not limited to audio or video. > > >You agree that UO may, without changing the content, convert the >submission to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation. > > >You also agree that the UO Libraries may keep more than one copy of >this submission for purposes of security, back-up and preservation. >The Libraries will make a good faith effort to preserve and distribute >this submission. In the event that the Libraries are unable to continue >to maintain this submission as part of the institutional repository, >the Libraries reserve the right to return the content to the submitting >departments/units/individuals. If the entity is no longer in existence, >or if the individual is untraceable, the Libraries will arrange to have >the materials appraised and possibly archived as part of the >university's digital archives. > > >You represent that the submission is your original work, and that you >have the right to grant the rights contained in this license. You also >represent that your submission does not, to the best of your knowledge, >infringe upon anyone's copyright. > > > >If the submission contains material for which you do not hold copyright, >you represent that you have obtained any necessary permission from >the copyright owner to grant UO the rights required by this license, >and that such third-party owned material is clearly identified and >acknowledged within the text or content of the submission. > > >IF THE SUBMISSION IS BASED UPON WORK THAT HAS BEEN SPONSORED OR SUPPORTED >BY AN AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION OTHER THAN UO, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE >FULFILLED ANY RIGHT OF REVIEW OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS REQUIRED BY SUCH >CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT. > > >UO will clearly identify your name(s) as the author(s) or owner(s) of >the submission, and will not make any alteration, other than as allowed >by this license, to your submission.