UM Institutional Repository

Blanket Agreement for Batch Deposits
Author's Deposit Agreement
Version 1.2, 30 January 2006

This Agreement would be associated with each deposit that is batch loaded by a designee (Community/Collection Coordinator), since the batch load process bypasses the standard click-through license in the submission workflow. It assumes that the designee, not the author, will do batch loads.

This Agreement is made by and between the [community name]____________ of the University of Michigan (hereinafter called the Community), represented by_____________, the Community's Collection Coordinator (hereinafter called the Designee) and the University of Michigan Library's Deep Blue Institutional Repository (hereinafter called the Repository) and is entered into on this ______day of ________, 20__.

This agreement allows the Designee to act on behalf of individual depositors and/or the Community and authorizes the Coordinator to batch load content to the Repository.

On behalf of the Community, the Designee acknowledges having read all policies of the Repository and agrees to abide by the terms and conditions therein. For content entrusted or gifted to the Designee, the Designee agrees that making the content available in the Repository is an appropriate and acceptable extension of its agreement with the Community, and is consistent with the Designee's charge to provide access to this content. In addition, the Coordinator has conveyed to appropriate Community representatives the terms and conditions outlined in those policies, including the language of the standard deposit license quoted below and that the Community members have granted the Coordinator the authority to deposit content on their behalf.

The standard deposit license states:

I hereby grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan the non-exclusive right to retain, reproduce and distribute the deposited work (the Work) in whole or in part, in and from its electronic format. This agreement does not represent a transfer of copyright to the University of Michigan.

The University of Michigan may make and keep more than one copy of the Work for purposes of security, backup, preservation and access, and may migrate the Work to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation and access in the future. The University of Michigan will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this agreement, to the Work.

I represent and warrant to the University of Michigan that the Work is my original work. I also represent that the Work does not, to the best of my knowledge, infringe or violate any rights of others.

I further represent and warrant that I have obtained all necessary rights to permit the University of Michigan to reproduce and distribute the Work and that any third-party owned content is clearly identified and acknowledged within the Work.

By granting this license, I acknowledge that I have read and agreed to the terms of this agreement and all related University of Michigan and Deep Blue policies.

This document will be stored in the Repository attached to each deposit submitted by the Community.