In return for the University waiving its Statutory claim to copyright in Scholarly Articles, and recognising the authorising member of staff as the first owner of copyright in said Scholarly Articles, each staff member who is an author of a Scholarly Article agrees to grant the University of Durham a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, licence, with the right to sub-licence to make the author accepted manuscripts (AAM) of their Scholarly Articles publicly available under the terms of an appropriate Creative Commons licence.
This is to ensure a prior licence is in place between the an author and their institution, ensuring that an Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) can be deposited in our institutional repository and this can then be made open access upon publication under that licence.
