License Agreement

Here you can familiarize yourself with the main provisions of the License Agreement between the Licensor (Author, copyright holder) and the Publisher of the article (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University). 

Publishing license agreement.

1. The Licensor guarantees that he is the proper owner of the intellectual rights (exclusive and non-exclusive) to the Work specified in this Agreement.

2. The Licensor provides The publisher has the right to place the electronic form of the Work on the website of the online publication, as well as in databases and electronic library systems.

3. In order to increase the citation index of authors of scientific periodicals The Licensor hereby provides The publisher has the right to use the Work as source material for fulfilling applications within the framework of interlibrary subscription (IBA), document delivery (DD) and electronic document delivery (EDD), provided that the application comes from a non-profit organization that does not belong to any commercial organization of the library.

4. In order to protect, preserve, control access and the adequacy of reproduction of the electronic version of the Work The Licensor provides The Publisher has the right to facsimile reproduction by any technical means in full or in part, including storage or reproduction of the specified copies in electronic (including digital), optical or other machine-readable form.

5. The Licensor provides The Publisher, during the entire term of this Agreement, has the right to decide on the inclusion of the Work in whole or in part in the funds:

– The electronic library of the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education "SPbPU";

– electronic resources of the SPbPU;

– other databases of scientific articles and electronic libraries.

6. If the submitted Work is included in the electronic resources fund of the SPbPU, the procedure for depositing the electronic form of the Work and the terms of its storage are determined by the regulations for managing the electronic resources fund of the SPbPU and are not related to the validity period of this Agreement and the level of access provided to the Work.

7. For Works not included in the fund of electronic resources of the SPbPU, the period of existence of the electronic form of the Work is determined by The Publisher and does not depend on the validity period of this Agreement.

8. The Licensor provides The Publisher has the right to use the electronic form of the Work free of charge.

9. The licensor does not pay To the Publisher for fulfilling the obligations under this Agreement.

10. The Licensor transfers to the Publisher the rights to use the Work for a period of 5 (five) years with the possibility of extension and without limitation of the territory.

11. Validity period The Agreement is automatically extended for one (1) year, if none of the parties has taken the initiative to terminate or amend it no later than 2 months before the expiration of its validity.

12. The Agreement may be terminated prematurely at the initiative of one of the parties with mandatory notification of the other party at least 2 months in advance or in case of non-fulfillment by one of the parties of obligations under the Agreement.

13. The Publisher undertakes to:

– to provide the Licensor with the opportunity to familiarize himself with the terms of use of the Work at any time;

– when using the Work, take measures to ensure the protection of the Licensor's personal non-property rights, and undertakes not to make any changes to the content of the Work without written consent The Licensor, including in the title, illustrations, explanations, comments, afterwords, etc., except as provided for in this Agreement.

14. The Publisher has the right to:

– require the Licensor to provide any necessary information about the Work;

– to translate (convert, modify into any machine-readable form) a lawfully published Work (an electronic version of the Work), which is included in full or in part in the fund of the "SPbPU", into the format used by the SPbPU for thematic collections and databases;

– create an online electronic version of the Work based on the Work presented in electronic form.

15. The Licensor undertakes to:

– immediately notify the Publisher of the transfer of exclusive rights to the Work, including its electronic versions, to a third party in order to exclude claims under the terms of this Agreement;

– on demand The publisher must provide the necessary documents certifying the fact that this work is not an official work;

– in order to ensure the completeness and reliability of bibliometric and scientometric studies related to the citation of authors and the determination of the impact factor of periodicals of the "SPbPU" (reliability of an authoritative entry in the database of names of an individual author), inform the SPbPU in case of publications under a pseudonym or other forms of a name.

16. The Licensor has the right to check the order and conditions of use of the Work at any time.

17. For non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of obligations provided for in this Agreement, the parties are responsible in accordance with applicable law.