EOLAS displays, stores and disseminates digital content produced of the staff and learners in the Irish Further Education and Training sector. Content on EOLAS has been produced for use elsewhere: for publication in a journal, presentation at a conference, to assess a learner's progress etc.
It is important to understand whether you own the copyright of a work before submitting it to EOLAS. For the most part, you will own the copyright to your work, but there may be a few exceptions. If you do not own the copyright, you still may be able to upload content to EOLAS but will need the permission of copyright holder.
If you are uncertain about the copyright of your work, please get in touch with us at eolas@etbi.ie and we will do our best to help.
If you submit an article for publication in a scholarly journal, the chances are tat as part of the agreement to publish your article, you have to transfer copyright to the publisher. Having done that, you cannot upload your article to a repository. You can provide a link to it, but if you make the article available, you are breaching copyright and at the every least will be asked to remove it.
Some journals allow you to maintain copyright of your work and share and deposit them to a repository without issue. Many journals only allow specific versions of the article to be submitted. These are:
You can find the details of what version (if any) you can submit on the publisher agreement on the journal website or through SHERPA/RoMEO. Contact the library for more information
If you work at institution A but are studying or have studied at institution B and have written or are writing a these or dissertation, then it should be uploaded to the repository of institution B only. You did the work involved at institution B so it's theirs to upload. For the repository of institution A, you can provide a title, abstract and link to the work on institution B's repository, but not the work itself.
For works produced for conferences such as presentations, poster presentations and conference papers, you typically retain copyright to your work unless stated otherwise. Generally these can be uploaded to a repository without any problems. If you have signed any agreement or contract with the conference organisers, this may detail the copyright ownership of your work. You should consider the copyright policies of conferences you wish to present at in the future.
