Basics
Intellectual property in the UPC
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UPCommons, the open access portal to the knowledge of the UPC, is formed by the set of open institutional deposits of the UPC Its mission is to guarantee the preservation of the teaching and research output of the University's scientific and technical research, maximizing its visibility and, consequently, increasing its impact on teaching and research around the world.
This deposit allows the authors:
The deposit of works with free access to UPCommons offers the following advantages related to its identification, dissemination and conservation:
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When an author (and / or holder of rights) submits a document to UPCommons, authorize in a non-exclusive way its reproduction and public communication. Therefore, although he allows this communication on the network, he remains the sole owner of the exploitation rights, as detailed in the corresponding distribution license:
By clicking on this license, you (the author or the copyright owner) guarantees the UPC The non-exclusive right to distribute your shipment worldwide in electronic format.
You also agree that the UPC You can keep more than one copy of this shipment for security and preservation purposes.
The duration of the transfer of rights will be indefinite and may be terminated by unilateral complaint of the author / assignor, by termination of both parts of mutual agreement or for failure to comply with any of the parts of the obligations contained therein.
Declare that the submission is an original work, and / or that has the right to grant the rights contained in this license. It also declares that its submission does not infringe upon the copyright of any person.
If the shipment contains materials that it does not have the copyright, it declares that it has obtained the permission without restriction of the owner of the copyright to grant to the UPC the rights required by this license and that the owner knows the text or content of the consignment.
If the submission is based on a work that has been sponsored or supported by an agency or organization other than the UPC, it is assumed that any right of revision or other obligations required by such contract or agreement has been met.
La UPC It will not make any alteration other than those permitted in this license upon submission.
If the author (and / or holder of rights) wishes, he can optionally grant one of the licenses Creative Commons, which details the specific uses that users can make of their work, without having to ask for permission (without and when they do so under the conditions detailed in the license).
The authors have all the legal benefits contemplated in the Intellectual Property Law (LPI), regardless of whether their works are accessible in paper format or in digital format. Therefore, although this communication is made online, the author should not carry out any additional action to protect their own rights. In this way:
Taking into account these premises, the authors of the documents deposited with free access to UPCommons they have another tool with which to manage the following aspects related to their own copyright:
| dc.date.issued | It allows you to search for documents created (by the author) in a specific year |
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| dc.date.accessioned | allows you to search for deposited documents (for the UPC) to UPCommons in a specific year |
| dc.date.lift | allows you to search for documents, temporarily with closed access, for the year from which they can be consulted with free access (once their embargo period has expired) |
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In the case of confidential documents that have been seized, it allows you to search for them by the date from which their files could be consulted with free access (it only appears once the embargo period has expired) |
The section "See usage statistics"of each community ofUPCommons, offers the visits and downloads made of the documents deposited therein:
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Each one of the accesses to the page (or pages) of an item. |
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Action to save or display on screen each one of the files of the works. |
These totals can be viewed in the countries from which visits and downloads were made, as well as for the years and months in which they were carried out.
Of each of the deposited works you can also get the total number of visits and downloads by activating the icon "See usage statistics"(on the left bank of the corresponding descriptive bibliographic record).
