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NTL CoreTrustSeal Requirements

Supplementary information, links and documents for NTL's CoreTrustSeal application

Rights Management (R02)

R02: The repository maintains all applicable rights and monitors compliance.

Rights Management Policy

With the publication of the DOT Public Access Plan in 2015, the terms and conditions for all DOT funding agreements require:

  1. Immediate grant of a comprehensive non-exclusive, paid-up, royalty-free copyright license to the DOT and
  2. Submission of any publications to ROSA P.

The copyright license must include “all rights under copyright,” including, but not limited to:

  • Right to copy;
  • Right to distribute;
  • Right to prepare derivative works;
  • Right to display; and
  • Right to perform in public.
  • Consistent with emerging Committee on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) requirements, establish a framework for tracking the lifecycle of the DOT research portfolio at the project level through unique project identifiers.
  • Use digital object identifiers (DOI) to individually identify each Publication and Digital Data Set, to allow for correlation between associated Publications and supporting Digital Data Sets.
  • Require all researchers to obtain and report his or her unique ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identification on submissions of research results to ROSA P and/or publishers.
  • Require researchers to include the appropriate funding agreement number(s) on all submissions of research results to ROSA P and/or publishers.

To learn more about our rights management policies, please view them here (https://doi.org/10.21949/1520564).

Removal of Resources

Alteration or removal of resources, including publications and datasets, may be required if they contain data that is not publicly accessible. For example, material may be under copyright, may contain confidential information, or may compromise privacy or national security information. (See section 6 of the Selection Statement in the Collection Development and Maintenance Policy for further detail: https://doi.org/10.21949/1530598). 

License Recommendations

ROSA P strongly encourages researchers to deposit data under the Creative Commons CC-BY Attribution or an equivalent license, to the extent possible. The CC-BY license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. In terms of range and the requirement to be open access, researchers can license a work under any license as long as it is able to be copied, published, modified, and adapted by the public. Read more on our rights policy (https://doi.org/10.21949/1520564).

Public Domain and Rights at Deposit

If ROSA P has exercised rights over extramural Digital Data Sets, these will also be inventoried to the maximum extent practicable. To the extent required by statute or regulation, Publications and Digital Data Sets generated in the furtherance of research and development activities under the DOT’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program are exempt from the requirements of this plan, notwithstanding the requirements of M-13-13.

Only those resources that are in the public domain and/or those for which explicit permission has been provided by the rights holder to ROSA P to make their materials available for free over the web will be added to ROSA P. All other resources will be maintained in a restricted archive and access will be provided under the terms agreed between the rights holder and ROSA P.

ROSA P makes an effort to monitor compliance and check requirements and licenses at deposit. To read more about our safeguards regarding cataloging, please read Deposit and Appraisal (R08) and Quality Assurance (R09).