UC Institutional Research
Repository Deposit Licence
10 July 2017

In order for the UC Institutional Research Repository (UC Research Repository) to store, copy,
translate and distribute material deposited in it your agreement to the following terms is
necessary.

Please take a moment to read the terms of this deposit licence. An FAQ for this licence is available
at the following address httpsintranet.canterbury.ac.nzlibrary repositoryfaq.shtml.

Your rights
Rights granted to the UC Institutional Research Repository through this agreement are
nonexclusive. You are free to publish the work(s) in itstheir present or future version(s) elsewhere
and no ownership is assumed by the repository when storing an e-print of the work(s). The UC
Institutional Research Repository will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this
licence, to your work(s).

Depositing with the UC Institutional Research Repository
By agreeing to this licence, you (the author(s), copyright owner(s) or assignee(s)), grant a
nonexclusive licence to the UC Institutional Research Repository that authorises the following
a. that you are the author (or listed author), copyright holder or assignee and have authority to
make this agreement, and give the UC Institutional Research Repository the right to publish the
work(s) in a repository.
b. that the work(s) isare original and doesdo not, to the best of your knowledge, infringe upon
anyone’s copyright.
c. that, where third party material appears in your work(s), you (or the lead author) have
acknowledged the original author or copyright holder, andor sought permission to include the
third party material as part of your own published research
d. that, if the work(s) isare based on material that hashave been supported or sponsored by an
agency other than the University of Canterbury, you represent that you have fulfilled any right of
review or other obligations required by such contract or agreement.

Permissions given to the repository
The UC Institutional Research Repository shall distribute electronic copies of the work(s) for the
lifetime of the repository and translate itthem as necessary to any medium or format to ensure
itthey can be read by computer systems in the future.

Withdrawing your work(s)
You may request that the work(s) isare removed at any point in the future. Equally, the UC
Institutional Research Repository reserves the right to remove the work(s) for any professional,
administrative or legal reason. A metadata record indicating the work(s) waswere stored in the
repository will remain visible in perpetuity.
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Checking publishers’ copyright policies
The UC Institutional Research Repository will verify the copyright policy of a work’s publisher,
where copyright has been transferred by the author as part of the publishing process. Only
research that has been cleared will be approved into the repository.

Disclaimer
While every care will be taken to preserve the eprint(s), the UC Institutional Research Repository is
not liable for loss or damage to the digital object or other data while it is stored within the
repository.