Terms of Use
Authors who publish their works in the Research Collection agree to the regulations laid down in the platform's Terms of Use.
Furthermore, when uploading your work you will be prompted to grant the ETH Library permission to use your work under the Terms for submitting and using a work.
Primary publication
If you publish an original work in the Research Collection, the copyright and right of use for the work published remains with the author. This means that no legal obstacles stand in the way of a future publication of your research results elsewhere (such as with a commercial publisher).
Self-archiving
If you would like to re-publish ("self-archive") a journal article or another paper via the "Green Road" of open access in the Research Collection, you need to the observe the copyright policies of the original publisher.
More information on self-archiving.
End User Licence
During the Research Collection's submission process, you have also the option to grant a Creative Commons license and determine to which extent your work may be re-used by third parties.
Delegation of the upload of publications and/or data to third parties
- Publish full texts: If a person uploads publications in the Research Collection (incl. full texts) for all authors in your research group, we need a confirmation from the professor / head of the research group stating that the person is authorised to upload works from the research group. Please send us an informal e-mail to research-collection@library.ethz.ch, stating the organisational unit (Leitzahl) and the name of the authorised person.
- Publish conference contributions: See Conference proceedings rep. Conference videos.
- Data Steward Authorization (publish data and publications, release research data): Please fill in the Data stewardship authorization form and send it signed to research-collection@library.ethz.ch.
Dealing with third-party intellectual property
When using third-party intellectual property such as text or image material, make sure that third parties can recognize this material as such by quoting it and stating the rights holder (e.g. the publisher) and the respective source. In the case of images, the license under which the image has been published should be stated in addition to the source and the rights holder.
Data protection
If you want to publish photos or videos of people, you always need the consent of the persons depicted.
Special conditions apply to the upload of personal and other potentially sensitive research data: Further information on uploading sensitive data
Please also note the data protection declaration of the ETH Library.
