End User Agreement

Copies of deposited works on Griffith Open are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

for full-text and other full data items
  1. Anyone may access full items free of charge.
  2. Single copies of full items can be:
    • reproduced, and displayed or performed in any format or medium
    • for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.
  3. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holders.
  4. You must provide details of the author, title, and full bibliographic details.

You are free:
  • to Share - to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • to Adapt - to remix, transform and build upon the material

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

NonCommercial - You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

ShareAlike - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

The full version of this license is available at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ie/

Metadata Policy

for information describing items in the repository
  1. Anyone may access the metadata free of charge.
  2. The metadata may be re-used in any medium without prior permission for not-for-profit purposes provided the OAI Identifier or a link to the original metadata record are given.
  3. The metadata must not be re-used in any medium for commercial purposes without formal permission.

Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder(s).

Deposit Agreements:

For work being deposited by its own author:

In self-archiving this collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata, I grant Griffith Open the right to store them and to make them permanently available publicly for free on-line. I declare that this material is my own intellectual property and I understand that Griffith Open does not assume any responsibility if there is any breach of copyright in distributing these files or metadata. (All authors are urged to prominently assert their copyright on the title page of their work.)

For work being deposited by someone other than its author:
I hereby declare that the collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata that I am archiving at Griffith Open) is in the public domain. If this is not the case, I accept full responsibility for any breach of copyright that distributing these files or metadata may entail.

Content Policy

For types of document & data set held
  1. This is an institutional or departmental repository.
  2. Subject Specialities: Multidisciplinary
  3. The repository holds all types of materials.
  4. Deposited items may include:
    • working drafts
    • submitted versions (as sent to journals for peer-review)
    • accepted versions (author's final peer-reviewed drafts)
    • published versions (publisher-created files)
  5. Items are individually tagged with:
    • their peer-review status.
    • their publication status.
  6. For more information, please see webpage: http://go.griffith.ie

Submission Policy

Concerning depositors, quality & copyright
  1. Items may only be deposited by accredited members of the organisation, or their delegated agents.
  2. Authors may only submit their own work for archiving.
  3. The administrator only vets items for the exclusion of spam
  4. The validity and authenticity of the content of submissions is the sole responsibility of the depositor.
  5. Items may not be deposited until any publishers' or funders' embargo period has expired.
  6. Any copyright violations are entirely the responsibility of the authors/depositors.
  7. If the repository receives proof of copyright violation, the relevant item will be removed immediately.
  8. For more information see webpage: http://go.griffith.ie

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