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Work Package 5 - Development and integration of rights and permission procedures

Objective

To produce best practice procedures related to rights, royalties and permissions prior to the development of the national host service and the institutional toolkit

This Work Package will comprise three strands:

5a: IPR & Digitisation (retrospective and on-going)

  • Investigate best practice for obtaining digitisation permissions, if required at all
  • Determine the necessary legal agreements required between thesis authors and the BL
  • Develop model licences (if required), pragmatic procedures and supporting documentation

5b: Author IPR recommendations

  • Investigate the role of author royalties in the online arena taking into account the aspiration of a free-at-point-of-use service
  • Determine the necessary legal agreements required between authors, institutions and the BL

5c: End User IPR recommendations

  • Determine recommended practical legal agreements between end-users, institutions and the BL
  • Advise the national host development team how to implement recommendations into a live service

The group will provide a report summarising all the issues and recommendations (to be fed into the system) and will contribute to the advocacy activities of Work Package 8. External legal expertise will be called upon, as recommended by the JISC legal service.

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Improving research theses access to those who need it

Improving post graduate research knowledge transfer to students

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