Terms and conditions for SLU’s publication system
By using the publication system at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as SLU), you agree to the following terms and conditions for the publication (hereinafter also referred to as ‘making available’ or ‘providing access to’) of full text files.
1. Publication system
SLU provides a publication system that enables you to register and make available scientific publications and other works in digital form.
The technical solution and the name of the system may change over time.
2. Providing access
By uploading a work for the purpose of making it available in the publication system, you are making it open access to the public. You thereby grant SLU a non-exclusive right to store, copy and make the work open access via the internet.
You retain the copyright to the work.
3. Rights
You are responsible for ensuring that you hold the necessary copyright to make the work available in the publication system.
When you upload and make a work available, you are responsible for ensuring that all authors of the work have been informed of and have approved these terms of publication. You are also responsible for respecting the rights of any publishers or other rights holders.
This also applies in cases where someone other than the author, acting on the author’s behalf, uploads and makes the work available in SLU’s publication system.
4. Examination
If the work forms part of an examination, you are responsible for ensuring that the work has been approved before you upload and make it available in the publication system. This applies, for example, to theses and students’ independent projects.
5. Non-commercial access
Access via SLU’s publication system is provided on a non-commercial basis.
SLU does not charge you any fee for making the work available. You are not entitled to financial compensation from SLU for making the work available.
Nor does SLU charge users any fees for accessing the work in the publication system.
6. Removal of material
SLU is entitled to remove or restrict access to a work in the publication system if:
- the terms of publication are not complied with,
- copyright or other rights may have been infringed,
- the publication violates the law or a public authority decision, or
- other special reasons exist.
7. System changes
If the publication system is replaced by another technical solution, bibliographic data (metadata) and uploaded files may be transferred to the new system.
SLU also has the right, where necessary, to change file formats or metadata in order to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility.