Organisation : National Research Foundation
Type of Facility : Author Agreement Form
Head Office : Pretoria
Website : http://ir.nrf.ac.za/page/policies
Download Form : https://www.southafricain.com/uploads/8857-AuthorAgreement.pdf
Author Agreement Form :
NRF Institutional Repository – Request for Permission to Include Your Work :
** The aim of the NRF Institutional Repository is to expose the NRF’s research and creative outputs to the widest possible audience.
Related : NRF Open Access Statement Policy : www.southafricain.com/8854.html
** This is being achieved by making the full text of works available, where copyright and licensing permits, and having this material indexed by the world’s major search engines.
** If you grant us permission to include your works in the Repository we will, where possible, use the published version.
** Where your publishers do not permit this, we may ask you for a post print version of your manuscript and include this.
If you would like your published works included in the repository we need your agreement and warranty of ownership of the intellectual property. Could you please state your acceptance or non-acceptance of the statements below?
1. I, or to the best of my knowledge my co-author, have/had an affiliation with NRF as a staff member or researcher.
2. I understand that the IR team, prior to requesting my permission, has ensured that the publisher permits the Repository to store my works and make them available to the general public via the Internet at no cost.
3. I, as the author/co-author, grant to the NRF IR, the right to store the works in the Repository and to make them available to the general public via the Internet at no cost.
4. I, as the author/co-author, warrant that to the best of my knowledge and belief that the NRF’s use of my works will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.
5. I acknowledge and agree that the NRF is not responsible or liable for any breach of copyright, as a result of the use of my works.
** You may contact the NRF’s Repository Unit and request that any of your works be removed or suppressed from the Repository at any time.
** If you have any questions please contact the NRF Repository at nrfir AT nrf.ac.za