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By agreeing to the policies, the author grants the operator of the publication server licence for the following:
  • the permanent right to store electronically, especially in databases
  • the non-exclusive permanent right of use (Section 31 (2) German Copyright Act, UrhG) for the purpose of making the document available to the public in international data networks
  • the permanent right to convert the document for the purposes of digital preservation or visualisation while preserving the content (the document as originally archived is preserved)
  • the right to amend and/or complete the metadata provided by the author or editor where necessary
  • the right to give unlimited access to metadata and to make it usable
  • the right to disclose the document and the corresponding metadata to the German National Library as well as to document servers with the same aforementioned rights that fulfil geographical and technical requirements

The authors and editors shall bear all responsibility for the content of the documents. THWS shall assume no liability for the content of the provided publications and linked external sites. The author or editor shall guarantee that the document does not violate legal regulations, official decrees or the rights of any other third parties. The author or editor shall be obligated to determine and, where necessary, obtain the approval of any copyright or exploitation right holders. If the author or editor learns of the existence or development of legal barriers, they shall inform the University Library without delay.

The author assures that all personal data that is not intended for publication has been removed from uploaded files.

Copyright remains with the author. The University Library is merely granted non-exclusive right of use. This means that publication on OPUS FHWS does not preclude further publication of the documents in journals or monographs as well as on other servers. According to the recommendations of the German Science Council regarding the provision of digital information by university libraries, all FHWS researchers are advised to reserve the right to self-archive on OPUS FHWS when entering into publishing contracts and to additionally publish the documents they authored - possibly after a retention period - on the publication server.

The metadata of the documents published on the publication server may be stored and made available to third parties by anyone, if necessary in accumulated or selected form.

Already published documents shall not be deleted from the server. However, the University Library shall have the right to exclude published documents from publication if this would be in violation of third-party rights, provisions of these guidelines and/or the publication contract.

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