Theses and TDX: Legal aspects Doctoral programme in Information and Communication Technologies June 9th 2016
SUMARI TDX and RD99/2011 Declaration by the author Copyright and Creative Commons Licences Published articles and dissertations by papers Full-text embargoes Theses under knowledge protection or technology transfer Research data
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Theses and TDX: legal aspects 23.787 thesis deposited from 18 universities 77.787 searchable theses from 33 more universities 1.402 UPF theses deposited (of 1.762 read) 152 from your Departament (of 156 read)
UPF Academic regulations for doctorate courses Theses and TDX: legal aspects RD99/2011, Spanish Royal decree regulating official doctoral studies. Art. 14, section 5 UPF Academic regulations for doctorate courses
Theses and TDX: legal aspects RD99/2011, Spanish Royal decree regulating official doctoral studies. Art. 14, section 6 The Declaration by the author and TDX introduction process are developed from these regulations. Most commont problems and issues are taken into account.
Theses and TDX: legal aspects ARCHIVE Deposit Reading Dissemination
Theses and TDX: legal aspects Read carefully! Select options Sign and deliver to the PhD. Administration Questions: tdx@upf.edu
Declaration by the author Theses and TDX: legal aspects Declaration by the author Acknowledges being the thesis’ author The thesis is an original work Author is aware of the legal framework Author is not transferring publication rights to TDX/UPF
Theses and TDX: legal aspects
Theses and TDX: legal aspects ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SOME RIGHTS RESERVED Author’s permission needed according to intellectual property law. Option by default. Authors that want to share their work can define terms of use depending on the chosen CC licence.
Theses and TDX: legal aspects ATTRIBUTION SHARE ALIKE NON-COMMERCIAL NO DERIVATIVE WORKS
By Attribution / Share Alike By Attribution / Share Alike By Attribution / No derivatives By Attribution / Non-Commercial By Attribution / Non-Commercial / Share Alike By Attribution / Non-Commercial / No Derivatives
1 2 3 Theses and TDX: legal aspects Articles in the thesis Author does not want to publish thesis yet 3 Knowledge protection or technology transfer
1 Theses and TDX: legal aspects Articles in the thesis Chapters / sections of the thesis have been published as an article in a scientific journal >> Assignment of rights and a problem for TDX Dissertation by papers: Thesis structured around 3 or more articles published/accepted by scientific journals >> Assignment of rights and a problem for TDX Derived/resulting publications: Articles based on the ideas of the thesis but do not correspond to a specific chapter, and published after the thesis’ defence >> It does not affect thesis’ publication in TDX
1 Problema 1: articles Submitted Accepted Published Theses and TDX: legal aspects 1 Problema 1: articles Articles in the thesis Submitted Preprint Before peer-review Accepted Postprint After peer-review Published PDF Journal version
1 Mark the option in the Declaration!! Theses and TDX: legal aspects Articles in the thesis Mark the option in the Declaration!!
1 Mark the option in the declaration!! Theses and TDX: legal aspects 1 Articles in the thesis Mark the option in the declaration!! Please insert a separate page with the full bibliographic reference in the thesis The Library will check all articles and establish if the article can be included or not If not possible, the article is suppressed from the thesis and only the reference remains.
2 Author expects to publish articles and/or books or Theses and TDX: legal aspects 2 Author does not want to publish thesis yet Author expects to publish articles and/or books or Research is still underway What to do? Mark the option “delayed publication/embargo” in the Declaration Choose prefered embargo period
2 Theses and TDX: legal aspects Author does not want to publish thesis yet
Theses and TDX: legal aspects
3 Theses and TDX: legal aspects Knowledge protection or technology transfer Special procedure developed by the UPF PhD School! Author needs to submit an application before thesis deposit Author is required to provide documents justifying the application The Academic Committee of your Doctoral Programme will decide. For TDX, a redacted thesis will be used.
Tesis i TDX: aspectes legals
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A note about research or raw data… Theses and TDX: legal aspects A note about research or raw data… Requirements: Author has produced research data Author wants to disseminate the data > NOT compulsory Data does not have legal issues (copyright, data protection, image rights….) Deposited in the UPF e-Repositori de la UPF, with cross references to TDX
Theses and TDX: legal aspects
Thank you for your attention! Rosa Montañà tdx@upf.edu Theses and TDX Coordinator UPF Library