Publication Terms and Conditions

This website (www.openresearch.nihr.ac.uk) (“NIHR Open Research”) is an open access publishing platform for research conducted by recipients of funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (the “NIHR”). NIHR Open Research is operated and maintained by F1000 Research Limited (the “Service Provider”).

Articles

1. These are the terms on which your Content (“the Content”) may be published on NIHR Open Research. By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, they will form a binding contract between you, the Authority and the Service Provider.
2. You warrant and represent on behalf of yourself and to the extent applicable your co-authors that:
   1. You are authorized by your co-authors to enter into this agreement;
   2. You are the sole author(s) of the Content and the sole owner(s) of the copyright in the Content. If the Content includes materials of others, you have obtained the permission of the copyright owners of all such materials to enable you to grant this license;
   3. Nothing in the Content is obscene, defamatory, or libellous, violates any right of privacy or infringes any intellectual property rights or any other human, personal or other rights of any person or entity or is otherwise unlawful;
   4. Nothing in the Content infringes any duty of confidentiality which you may owe to anyone else or violates any contract, and all of the institutions in which work recorded in the Content was carried out have authorized publication of the Content; and
   5. The Content is original and has not been previously published.
3. You grant to the Authority and the Service Provider the non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual and irrevocable right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, sub-license and store the Content including without limitation any text, artwork, images, tables and photographs contained therein, in whole or in part, in all forms, formats and media whether now known or yet to be developed, including print, digital and electronic form and as transparencies.
4. You also grant the public the right to use of the article contained in the Content in accordance with the Creative Commons CC BY license and the data submitted in support of the article and contained in the Content in accordance with the Creative Commons Universal CC0 1.0 license.

Documents

1. These are the terms on which your Content (“the Content”) may be published on NIHR Open Research. By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, they will form a binding contract between you, the Authority and the Service Provider.
2. You warrant and represent on behalf of yourself and your co-authors that:
   1. You are authorized by your co-authors to enter into this agreement;
   2. You are the sole author(s) of the Content and the sole owner(s) of the copyright in the Content. If the Content includes materials of others, you have obtained the permission of the copyright owners of all such materials to enable you to grant this license;
   3. Nothing in the Content is obscene, defamatory, or libellous, violates any right of privacy or infringes any intellectual property rights or any other human, personal or other rights of any person or entity or is otherwise unlawful;
   4. Nothing in the Content infringes any duty of confidentiality which you may owe to anyone else or violates any contract, and all of the institutions in which work recorded in the Content was carried out have authorized publication of the Content.
3. You grant to the Authority and the Service Provider the non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, license and store the Content including without limitation any text, artwork, images, tables and photographs contained therein, in whole or in part, in all forms, formats and media whether now known or yet to be developed, including print, digital and electronic form and as transparencies.
4. You also grant the right to use of the Content in accordance with the Creative Commons CC BY license.