Terms and conditions of use

Use of digital documents

The material published on the UNIL digital collections portal is protected by various laws and licences. It includes (but is not limited to) works such as images, artwork and 3D objects (the "digital documents") as well as text and descriptive metadata. To know the terms of use of a document, please refer to its individual descriptive record, under "Rights".

 

Public Domain Mark

Documents in the public domain are marked with the Public Domain Mark. Their re-use, including for commercial purposes, is entirely free.

Anyone is free to :

  • share (copy, distribute and use the digital documents)
  • create (produce new creations, products or services from the digital documents)
  • adapt (combine or transform the digital documents and build upon them)

Everyone has the obligation to :

  • cite the source in the following way :
    Name of author, Title, institution, name of collection, identifier and/or permalink.

 

Licence CC BY-SA 4.0

Some documents are available under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence.

Anyone is free to :

  • share (copy, distribute and use the digital documents)
  • create (produce new creations, products or services from the digital documents, while respecting the terms of use of the source material)
  • adapt (combine or transform digital documents and build upon them, while respecting the terms of use of the source material)

Everyone has the obligation to :

  • cite the source in the following way:
    Name of author, Title, institution, name of collection, identifier and/or permalink. Photographic credits (if any).
  • share on the same terms (if an adapted version of the digitised documents is used publicly, it must be used according to the same rules as the source material)
  • keep open (if the digitised documents are redistributed, their use may not be restricted by technical or legal measures)

 

Copyright of digital documents

Most of the documents published on the UNIL Digital Collections portal are reproductions that have been digitised by the UNIL Information Resources and Archives Service (UNIRIS) and its partners. No additional copyright applies to these digital reproductions.

The digital collections portal also makes available digital works and images whose creators retain intellectual property rights. These are subject to the Swiss Loi fédérale sur le droit d'auteur·trice (LDA), regardless of their Creative Commons licence.

When necessary, photographic credits are indicated under "Credits" in the individual descriptive records. The credits constitute the signature of a digital work or image. They are part of the quotation and mandatory for any (re)use (publication, reproduction or commercialisation) of the work.

 

All images published on the UNIL Digital Collections portal are made interoperable via the IIIF technical framework.

To order high-resolution files (re-usable under the same conditions) and for any additional request concerning the re-use of digitised documents or data, please contact the UNIL Information Resources and Archives Service (UNIRIS) via the contact form, or directly by e-mail at uniris@unil.ch.

 

Use of descriptive metadata

The metadata which describe all documents accessible on the UNIL digital collections portal are available in a simplified Dublin Core format via the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) data exchange protocol. The use of this protocol is free, as are its specifications: www.openarchives.org. Designed to describe in a simple but unambiguous way the documentary resources available on the Internet, the unqualified (or "simple") Dublin Core format is composed of fifteen descriptive elements, each one being optional and repeatable.

The records, retrievable via the OAI-PMH protocol, are deposited in the OAI Warehouse: https://collections.unil.ch/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

The OAI warehouse is updated regularly. The re-use of this metadata is free, provided appropriate acknowledgement of the source.

Anyone has the right to :

  • share (reproduce, redistribute and use the metadata)
  • exploit (reprocess, adapt and modify the metadata, provided that their meaning and accuracy are not distorted and that third parties are not misled as to the content or source of the information)

Everyone have an obligation to :

  • mention the source of the metadata.