IUPUI DataWorks Deposit Agreement

The University must be granted permission to distribute and preserve all works placed in the IUPUI DataWorks repository. The creator/original rights owner retains all intellectual property rights on all works. When creators submit content to the IUPUI DataWorks repository, they agree to the following:

By depositing this Content ("Content") in the IUPUI DataWorks repository ("DataWorks"), I agree that I am solely responsible for any consequences of uploading this Content to DataWorks and making it publicly available, and I represent and warrant that:

  1. I am either the sole creator and the owner of the copyrights and all other rights in the Content; or, without obtaining another's permission, I have the right to deposit the Content in an archive such as DataWorks.
    1. In preparing the data for public archiving and distribution, I removed any confidential or sensitive information, student education records protected under FERPA, and all information that personally identifies any individual or that contains any information classified as highly sensitive under state or federal law, or IUPUI policy. For these purposes, highly sensitive data currently includes personal information that can lead to identity theft if exposed and health information that reveals an individual's health condition and/or history of health services use.
    2. I have considered whether other researchers have rights to manage the release of this Content, for example others involved with the grant, research activity, or laboratory, whether at IUPUI or at another institution. If the answer to this question was yes, I obtained their permission to deposit the Content in IUPUI DataWorks.
  2. To the extent that any portions of the Content are not my own creation, they are used with the rights holder(s)' express permission or as permitted by law. Additionally, the Content does not infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of another, nor does the Content violate any laws or another's rights of privacy or publicity.
  3. The Content contains no restricted, private, confidential, or otherwise protected data or information that should not be publicly shared.

I understand that the University will do its best to provide perpetual access to my Content. In order to support these efforts, I grant the Indiana University Board of Trustees, through DataWorks, the following non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide rights and licenses:

  1. to access, reproduce, distribute and publicly display the Content, in whole or in part, in order to secure, preserve and make it publicly available, and;
  2. to make derivative works based upon the Content in order to migrate the Content to other media or formats, or to preserve its public access.

These terms do not transfer ownership of the intellectual property rights in the Content. These terms only grant to the University the limited license outlined above.

You agree to hold IUPUI harmless in the event of any violation. IF THE SUBMISSION IS BASED UPON WORK THAT HAS BEEN SPONSORED OR SUPPORTED BY AN AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION OTHER THAN INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED ANY RIGHT OF REVIEW OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS REQUIRED BY SUCH CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT. IUPUI will clearly identify your names(s) as author(s) or owner(s) of the submission, and will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this license, to your submission.