Principles of collecting and sharing digital resources



Collecting	The Main Library of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences offers a free service of uploading electronic versions of doctoral dissertations defended at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences to the server of the SGGW Main Library and sharing them in the Digital Resources Department. The content of the Digital Resources Department Database is searchable both in the metadata layer and in the content of documents. Doctoral dissertations are obligatorily archived, in accordance with z Regulaton no. 14/2012 of the Rector of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences of 22.05.2012. Older textbooks and scripts from the resources of the Main Library of WULS-SGGW are also digitized, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the copyright law, which are available only on the premises of the library.

Depositing	A doctoral student at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences can become a depositary. Before placing a work in the Digital Resources Department of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, the author signs an agreement (non-exclusive license) which specifies the scope of making their work available at the Digital Resources Department of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Link to the text of the non-exclusive license for Ph.D. students:: license

Sharing	Access to bibliographic descriptions of the deposited works is open to all interested parties. Access to full texts of documents archived at the Digital Resources Department of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences is – by definition – open to all interested parties. However, it is allowed to make some objects (especially doctoral dissertations) available only to authorized users or only on the premises of the library, in accordance with the license signed by the author.

Safety	The works placed in the database of the Digital Resources Department of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences will be stored indefinitely, in compliance with the data security policy. The author, by depositing the documents, approves the non-exclusive license in force at the Digital Library of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. The depositary is required to maintain the credibility and authenticity of the deposited documents. Full liability for copyright infringement rests with the repository In exceptional cases related to violation of the copyright law, documents may be withdrawn from the database. A copy of the document may be legally: made for personal use, for scientific and educational purposes without the consent of the owner, with reference to the source. Digital objects may not be sold in any format or medium without the consent of the copyright holder.