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9. Responsibilities of the University of Pretoria At the University of Pretoria, the university is expected to: • Be actively committed to the preservation of research material through UPSpace. • Provide support with regard to hardware, manpower, funding. • Set policy at University level regarding issues that affect UPSpace, e.g. copyright rules, image requirements, etc. Also see the Open Access mandate and policy re theses, dissertations and mini-dissertations. • Support functions mandated by existing policies. 10. Responsibilities of the Library Information Systems & Technology The Library Unit Information Systems & Technology provides software support on application level with regard to UPSpace, which include the following (See Service Level Agreement Unit Information Systems & Technology): Software installation and upgrading Projects: Roll-out of Software, Networking and Hardware Supplement or augment in-house technical skills, network administration, project management Their mission are amongst others to “Interpret the strategic plan of UP and the Library in order to ensure that the necessary IT Infrastructure and programs are available in time to realize the strategies”. 11. Licensing, Copyright, Privacy and Intellectual Property Issues 11.1 UPSpace Distribution License When submitting an item to UPSpace, the submitter, author/s or copyright owner/s grants nonexclusive distribution rights to the University of Pretoria. This non-exclusive distribution rights in no way prevents an author/s or copyright owner/s from publishing the work in a research journal or distributing it in any other fashion. The author/s or copyright owner/s retains full copyright of the work. It is the responsibility of the submitters to gain copyright clearance where necessary, and to familiarize themselves with the self-archiving policies of the various publishers, nationally and internationally. When submitting items to UPSpace, please make sure that you adhere to copyright requirements. Ask permission before you archive material on UPSpace, and submit the letter of consent to the UPSpace Letters of Consent Collection (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1149) on UPSpace. Use the "Rights" field to refer to the permission that was obtained. University of Pretoria UPSpace User Policy Version 3.2 Updated by Hettie Groenewald and Kataila Ramalibana on 6/20/2013 12
Copyright of Research articles: Policies of many publishers of research articles can be found in the Romeo Project available at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php. If the publisher’s policy is not available on this database, publishers are contacted directly to obtain permission. The letter of consent/ no consent is then archived within the UPSpace Letters of Consent Collection. Publishers are also encouraged to make their policies on self-archiving within institutional repositories available on SHERPA RoMEO. See http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoupdate.php Embargoed dates applying to articles as specified by the Publishers permission will be entered in the dc. Description embargo field and will automatically expire on the given date Access to the UPSpace Letters of Consent Collection is restricted, since permission policies within this collection only apply to permission granted to the University of Pretoria. Apply to be registered as a Submitter with upspace@up.ac.za . Copyright of UP Theses & dissertations: It is compulsory for all UP students to submit electronic copies of their theses or dissertations to an online repository (see General Regulation G57.4(i) - page 19). UP holds the copyright for theses and dissertations produced by its members during enrolment at the University of Pretoria. The University of Pretoria uses the following license agreement in UPSpace: Non-Exclusive Distribution License In order for UPSpace to reproduce, translate and distribute your submission worldwide your agreement to the following terms is necessary. By submitting this license, you (the submitter, author or copyright owner, or on behalf of the submitter, author or copyright owner) grant to the University of Pretoria the non-exclusive right to reproduce, translate (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 the University of Pretoria may, without changing the content, translate the submission to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation. You also agree that the University of Pretoria may keep more than one copy of this submission for purposes of security, back-up and preservation. 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 the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner to grant the University of Pretoria 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED ANY RIGHT OF REVIEW OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS REQUIRED BY SUCH CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT. The University of Pretoria will clearly identify your name(s) as the submitter, author(s) or owner(s) of the submission, and will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this license, to your submission. All items in the UPSpace collection are subject to the SA Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 (as amended) available at http://www.buys.co.za/publications/cyberlaw/CopyrightAct.htm 11.2 UPSpace Privacy Policy The UPSpace Privacy Policy at the University of Pretoria states that the university is committed to preserving privacy. The personal information the University of Pretoria receives through UPSpace is University of Pretoria UPSpace User Policy Version 3.2 Updated by Hettie Groenewald and Kataila Ramalibana on 6/20/2013 13
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