Terms and conditions for using the self-archiving service
General conditions
Authors must be affiliated to GU.
For a publication with several co-authors, all authors need to agree that it can be re-published through self-archiving. We assume that all authors agree if one author formally declares their consent for publishing on the repository.
Authors give the university library a non-exclusive right to publish the works available for self-archiving. Copyright remains with the authors. Please see the declaration of consent for details.
Consent is declared for self-archiving those publications for which self-archiving options have been determined. If authors give a blanket declaration of consent, their consent is assumed for all future publications with this option. The self-archiving services does not guarantee that all publications for which a self-archiving option might be determined will be identified. It is therefore dependent on the authors reporting new publications on a regular basis, and on their contribution in acquiring correct versions of the publications.
Authors agree that the self-archiving service can contact publishers concerning self-archiving options for individual publications in case they cannot be determined otherwise.
The self-archiving service is free of charge:
- There are no costs for authors.li>
- At the same time, self-archiving options that require payment (such as paying a fee to “unlatch” closed access publications) cannot be covered.
File acquisition and document types
Authors submit those publications to the self-archiving service that cannot be acquired by the university library. This includes Versions of Record that are published on platforms that have not been licenced by the library, as well as manuscript versions such as the Author Accepted Manuscript. This also applies to works published in print only – for the time being, a retroactive digitization is not possible.
The self archiving service is not available for books (monographies and entire edited volumes or conference proceedings). The reason is that only very few publishers agree to a free self-archiving of entire books. Self-archiving of individual contributions to edited volumes or conference proceedings, on the other hand, is frequently possible.
The self-archiving service will only publish preprints (Author Submitted Manuscripts, ASM) if publishing a preprint is the only self-archiving option, and there is no suitable preprint server available.
Disclaimer
Our identification of self-archiving options is no legally binding estimation. We rely on our knowledge and understanding of the legal conditions, the information and policies published by the publishers and their replies to direct queries, as well as our extensive experience in the field of open access publishing.
We neither guarantee that there are self-archiving options for all publications (this being highly dependent on the discipline, the publisher, or the work’s date of publication), nor that all possible self-archiving options will be discovered and exhausted.
Depending on the length of publication lists, the type of publications and the quality of metadata (inclusion of DOI or other identifiers), a longer amount of time may be required until all options have been determined.
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zuletzt geändert am 17. Juli 2023
