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Student authors retain copyright for all content created by them and submitted to the UCLA Library Undergraduate Research Prize. However, authors grant to The UCLA Library the right to make available such content, in any format, in perpetuity. Authors may reproduce, in other contexts, content to which they possess the copyright, although in any subsequent publications the UCLA Library Undergraduate Research Prize should be acknowledged as the original publisher. Student authors submitting a paper to the UCLA Library Undergraduate Research Prize automatically agree to confer a limited license to the UCLA Library as stated above.
This license allows the UCLA Library to publish and make the research and/or reflective essay publicly available. In addition, authors agree to have their research and/or reflective essay published and preserved by UCescholarship (see http://escholarship.org/uc/ucla).
Authors have a choice of:
- Dedicating the article to the public domain. This allows anyone to make any use of the article at any time, including commercial use. A good way to do this is to use the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication Web form; see http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en.
- Retaining some rights while allowing some use. For example, authors may decide to disallow commercial use without permission. Authors may also decide whether to allow users to make modifications (e.g. translations, adaptations) without permission. A good way to make these choices is to use a Creative Commons license. Go to http://creativecommons.org/license/. Choose and select license. Choose "generic" if you are in the U.S. and "text" for First Monday articles. Background information about Creative Commons licenses can be found at http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/.
- Retaining full rights, including translation and reproduction rights. Authors may use the statement: © Author 2016 All Rights Reserved.
- Authors may also choose to use their own wording to reserve copyright. If you choose to retain full copyright, please add your copyright statement to the end of your paper, project, or article.