The intent of the following license agreement is to give the Library permission to post the material openly on the Web and to take the necessary steps to preserve the material (preserving the material might mean that the files will need to be converted to a different or newer version of a file format if the existing file format or the hardware/software needed to read it becomes obsolete).

Authors who submit their work to the Research Repository retain the copyright to their work, unless they explicitly give it away to a third party. The University of Missouri-Rolla Library does not seek or claim copyright on any of the works submitted to the Research Repository

A non-exclusive distribution license means that authors may make other copies of their work available on other web sites or through other means without obtaining permission from the Library.  They may also formally publish their work, in the same form or in a revised form, without obtaining permission from the Library.

The Library charges no fee for the service and collects no revenue from the archive.

The following paragraphs reproduce the text of the license agreement that authors must approve as part of the process of submitting material to the Research Repository.

If you have questions, please contact the Research Repository steering committee at scholarsmine@mst.edu.

NON-EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION LICENSE

By signing and submitting this license, you (the author(s) or copyright

owner) grant to Missouri University of Science and Technology the non-exclusive right

to reproduce, convert (as defined below), and/or distribute your submission

(including the abstract) worldwide in print and electronic format and

in any medium, including but not limited to audio or video.

You agree that Missouri University of Science and Technology
may, without changing the content, convert the

submission to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation.

You also agree that Missouri University of Science and Technology's
Library may keep more than one copy of

this submission for purposes of security, back-up and preservation.

The Library will make a good faith effort to preserve and distribute

this submission. In the event that the Library is unable to continue

to maintain this submission as part of the institutional repository,

the Library reserves the right to return the content to the submitting

departments/units/individuals. If the entity is no longer in existence,

or if the individual is untraceable, the Library will arrange to have

the materials appraised and possibly archived as part of the

university's digital archives.

You represent that the submission is your original work, and that you

have the right to grant the rights contained in this license. You also

represent that your submission does not, to the best of your knowledge,

infringe upon anyone's copyright.

If the submission contains material for which you do not hold copyright,

you represent that you have obtained any necessary permission from

the copyright owner to grant Missouri University of Science and Technology
 the rights required by this license,

and that such third-party owned material is clearly identified and

acknowledged within the text or content of the submission.

IF THE SUBMISSION IS BASED UPON WORK THAT HAS BEEN SPONSORED OR

SUPPORTED BY AN AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION OTHER THAN MISSOURI
UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, YOU REPRESENT

THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED ANY RIGHT OF REVIEW OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS

REQUIRED BY SUCH CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT.

Missouri University of Science and Technology
will clearly identify your name(s) as the author(s) or owner(s) of

the submission, and will not make any alteration, other than as allowed

by this license, to your submission.