Archives & Research Conestoga (ARC)
Archives & Research Conestoga (ARC)
Conestoga will not change the content of work
The submission of work to the repository does not transfer copyright to the repository. Copyright remains with the copyright holder.
Submitter may elect to provide a Creative Commons licence to give greater freedom for reuse, default licence is Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives, which is essentially a default licence for freely available web content.
Must be submitter’s own work, or they must have rights to distribute.
Information about work must be accurate (e.g. included authors)
Cannot infringe on copyright, intellectual property, trademarks, patents
If 3rd party content is also included, content must be clearly identified and submitter must have permission to submit that content to the repository
If there is more than one author, submitter must ensure all authors approve of the submission and have read the licence details
If work was sponsored or supported by 3rd party, the stipulations of that agreement are met and do not impinge on submitter’s right to submit work to repository.
Work does not contain personal, confidential or proprietary info
Work does not contain libelous or unlawful info, including privacy considerations
Work is not subject to embargo or other publication delay
If submitter grants copyright or permissions to other organizations in future, agreement must allow for the college to hold it in the repository. Alternatively, a request for removal could be allowed, and the repository would maintain metadata only.