De Montfort University Open Research Archive ("DORA")
Terms of Use and Deposit Agreement

DORA supports the long-term preservation of research documents produced by members of De Montfort University ("DMU"), and provides free access to them. To undertake this role, DMU Library staff need permission to store, copy and manipulate any material submitted to the DORA repository in order to ensure that it can be preserved and made available in the future.
The agreement set out herein gives DMU Library staff the right to store, copy and manipulate any document, paper, e-print or other material of any kind including but not limited to abstract, text, images and related data to be submitted to DORA ("Materials").  The agreement is non-exclusive, and the Depositor does not give away any of their rights or, where the Depositor is not the owner, author or assignee of the Materials, those rights belonging to the owner, author or assignee of the Materials to DMU by submitting the Materials to DORA.


Depositor's declaration
1. The author, copyright owner or assignee of the Materials or any other person who has been granted the right either expressly or impliedly by the author, copyright owner or assignee of the Materials to deposit the Materials in DORA shall be the Depositor.
2. The Depositor shall be free to deposit Materials with DORA and shall grant a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to DMU to store, copy and manipulate the Materials for the purpose of submitting the Materials to DORA.
3. The Depositor warrants that:
3.1. they have the right to submit the Materials to DORA by virtue of them being the owner of the copyright in the Materials (including content & layout) or that they are duly authorised by the owner(s) or other holder of these rights to do so, and the Depositor warrants that they are capable of granting under this agreement, a licence to hold and disseminate copies of the Materials.
3.2. the Materials are not and shall be in no way a violation or infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, or other rights whatsoever of any person.  Should the Materials be found to be in breach of any copyright, trademark, patent or other rights whatsoever DMU shall in no way be liable for any such breach and the Depositor shall fully indemnify DMU for any losses, claims, actions, costs of any kind whatsoever that it may incur as a result of such a breach.
3.3. where the Materials have been sponsored or supported by an organisation, any obligations required by any contract or agreement with such organisation in relation to the Materials have been fulfilled.
3.4. where the Materials have resulted from research funding from the RCUK, the work will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) copyright licence.  The CC-BY licence allows others to modify, build upon and/or distribute the Materials (including for commercial purposes) provided that the original author is credited.
DMU's Rights and Responsibilities
4. DMU shall have the right:
4.1. in perpetuity to distribute copies of the Materials (including the abstract) worldwide in print and electronic format and in any medium or as negotiated with the DORA repository administrator.
4.2. electronically store, translate, copy, or re-arrange the Materials to ensure their future preservation and accessibility, unless notified by the depositor that specific restrictions apply.
4.3. to incorporate metadata or documentation into public access catalogues for the e-print. A metadata record that cites the Materials will remain visible in perpetuity.
4.4. to remove the Materials if they are found to violate any copyright, trademark, patent, or other rights whatsoever of any person.
4.5.  to distribute copies of the Materials under a CC-BY copyright licence where the work has been published according to the RCUK open access requirements for publications relating to projects funded by RCUK.

5. DMU shall not:
5.1. be under any obligation to take legal action on behalf of the Depositor or other rights holders in the event of breach of intellectual property rights or any other right in the Materials;
5.2. be under any obligation to reproduce, transmit, broadcast, or display the Materials in the same formats or resolutions as that in which they were originally deposited.