Publication Terms and Conditions

Last Updated: 2 October 2017

Gates Open Research is an open access publishing platform controlled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (“Foundation”). This website, https://GatesOpenResearch.org (“Website”), is hosted and operated by F1000 Research Limited (“Service Provider”) on behalf of the Foundation.

BY CLICKING “SUBMIT” WHEN YOU SUBMIT CONTENT, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND THESE ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. TERMS NOT DEFINED IN THESE ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL HAVE THE MEANING PROVIDED IN THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Articles

1. By submitting Your Content on the Website, you thereby warrant and represent on behalf of yourself and any co-authors that:
   1. You are authorized to enter into this agreement and publish Your Content on this Website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
   2. You are the sole author(s) of Your Content and the sole owner(s) of the copyright in Your Content. If Your Content includes materials of others, you have obtained the permission of the copyright owners of all such materials to enable you to grant this license;
   3. Your Content does not contain any obscene, defamatory, libellous, offensive, indecent, or otherwise unlawful content;
   4. Your Content does not infringe any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark, or other proprietary right of any third party;
   5. Your Content does not violate any right of privacy or other rights of any person or entity;
   6. Your Content does not violate any duty of confidentiality which you may owe to anyone else or violate any contract;
   7. All of the institutions in which work recorded in Your Content was carried out have authorized publication of Your Content; and
   8. Your Content is original and has not been previously published.
2. By submitting Your Content on the Website, you thereby grant to the Foundation and the Service Provider, to the extent acting on the Foundation’s behalf, the non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual and irrevocable right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, sub-license and store Your Content including without limitation any text, artwork, images, tables and photographs contained therein, in whole or in part, in all forms, formats and media whether now known or yet to be developed, including print, digital and electronic form and as transparencies.
3. By submitting Your Content on the Website, you thereby grant the public the right to use of the article contained in Your Content in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. International license and the data deposited in support of the article and contained in Your Content in accordance with the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 International license.

Posters, slides and documents

1. By submitting Your Content on the Website, you thereby warrant and represent on behalf of yourself and any co-authors that:
   1. You are authorized to enter into this agreement and publish Your Content on this Website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
   2. You are the sole author(s) of Your Content and the sole owner(s) of the copyright in Your Content. If Your Content includes materials of others, you have obtained the permission of the copyright owners of all such materials to enable you to grant this license;
   3. Your Content does not contain any obscene, defamatory, libellous, offensive, indecent, or otherwise unlawful content;
   4. Your Content does not infringe any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark, or other proprietary right of any third party;
   5. Your Content does not violate any right of privacy or other rights of any person or entity;
   6. Your Content does not violate any duty of confidentiality which you may owe to anyone else or violate any contract; and
   7. All of the institutions in which work recorded in Your Content was carried out have authorized publication of Your Content
2. By submitting Your Content on the Website, you thereby grant to the Foundation and the Service Provider, to the extent acting on the Foundation’s behalf, the non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual and irrevocable right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, sub-license and store Your Content including without limitation any text, artwork, images, tables and photographs contained therein, in whole or in part, in all forms, formats and media whether now known or yet to be developed, including print, digital and electronic form and as transparencies.
3. By submitting Your Content on the Website, you thereby grant the public the right to use of the work contained in Your Content in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. International license.