Name: | U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Service |
Type: | Academic/research institution |
Institution/funder website: | http://www.ars.usda.gov |
Country: | United States |
Open Access policy: | Requirement |
Policy link: | http://www.afm.ars.usda.gov/ppweb/PDF/152-1-ARS.pdf |
Effective date from: | 2010-10-08 |
Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers, Technical reports |
Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Publisher's version of record |
When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | Unspecified |
Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...Copyright protection under U.S. copyright law is not available for any work prepared by a Federal employee as part of his/her official duties. Therefore, neither ARS nor an ARS employee has a copyright in such a work, which may be freely reproduced by the public. In responding to a publisher’s request to transfer copyright, an ARS employee should return the signed form “Certification of Material as Public Domain Content” (Exhibit 4) to the publisher, which contains the following statement: The article/chapter cited was prepared by a U.S. Department of Agriculture employee as part of his/her official duties. Copyright protection under U.S. Copyright Law Title 17 U.S.C. §105 is not available for such works. Accordingly, there is no copyright to transfer. The fact that the private publication in which the article appears is itself copyrighted does not affect the material of the U.S. Government, which can be freely reproduced by the public..." |
Where to archive?: | Institutional repository |
Name of specified archive: | DigiTop |
URL of specified archive: | https://d2.nal.usda.gov/login |
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