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Terms of use of Sciences Po Institutional Repository (all users)

All users may read, download or print any article or any piece of work available in Sciences Po Institutional Repository without asking permission of the individual author or the copyright holder, to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. Users may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. Any other use not referred by these rules requires the permission of the author or the copyright holder. When using an article, users must cite the name of the author as indicated by the author of the article or the copyright holder.

Terms of use of Sciences Po Institutional Repository (Sciences Po academic community)

Rights granted to Sciences Po for disseminating your work in Sciences Po Institutional Repository are non-exclusive. You are free to submit your work in its present or future version(s) to publishers or other repositories; no ownership is assumed by Sciences Po when storing the work in Sciences Po Institutional Repository.

You grant a non-exclusive license to Sciences Po to disseminate your work through Sciences Po Institutional Repository, which means that :

• you are the author or the copyright holder
• or you get from the copyright holder (publishers, institutions, co-authors) the right to publish the work in Sciences Po Institutional Repository
• the work is original and does not, to the best of your knowledge, infringe upon anyone’s copyright
• Sciences Po shall not be under any obligation to take legal action on behalf of the depositor or other rights holder in the vent of breach of intellectual property rights; Sciences Po is not legally responsible for mistakes, omissions or legal infringements within the deposited work.

By accepting this license, you grant Sciences Po the right to :

• distribute the work (including metadata and abstract) through Sciences Po Institutional Repository in electronic format, for non-commercial purposes in relation to its academic goal.
• Electronically store, translate, copy or re-arrange the work to any medium or format to ensure its future preservation and accessibility.

Withdrawing your work from Sciences Po Institutional Repository :

• You always remain free to request a work deposited in Spire to be removed from Sciences Po Institutional Repository
• Equally, Sciences Po reserves its right to remove the work for any professional, administrative or legal reason.
• In both cases, a metadata record indicating the work was stored in Sciences Po Institutional Repository remains visible.

Avertissement :

While every care will be taken to preserve the work, Sciences Po is not liable for loss or damage to the work or other data while it is stored within Spire.

Check the RoMEO database which lists the copyright and self-archiving policies of a large number of publishers.