Definitions and Acronyms

Attribution CC BY - lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. 

License Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Legal Code https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode 

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA - This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open-source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

License Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 

Legal Code https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode 

Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND - This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.

License Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 

Legal Code https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode 

Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC - This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

License Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 

Legal Code https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode 

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA - This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms.

License Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 

Legal Code https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode 

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND - This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

License Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 

Legal Code https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 

BDEARS: Busitema Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship is the official institutional repository of Busitema University

Compliance: Conformity in fulfilling official requirements (Glossary definition – look for the definition from a law dictionary).

Copyright: A set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work including the right to copy distribute and adapt the work.

Copyright Authorization: The copyright holder has the sole right to authorize others to exercise rights under Copyright Law, and the right to authorize others to exercise rights. This language transfers the non-exclusive right to Busitema University to allow others to use the scholarly works in specified ways and contexts, such as other Busitema University academic staff who want to use a Work in teaching.

Creative Commons License: Recognizes the author’s copyright authority, but allows others to copy and distribute the work, provided they give the author credit and only on the specified conditions. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ 

Deposit: A deposit represents a bundle of the submitted information. Typically, a deposit consists of descriptive metadata, access conditions and copyright information, and any relevant uploaded files. This entire set of saved information is the deposit record.

Depositor: A depositor is the creator of a deposit record, who submits digital items and associated data for review, approval and uploads to the repository.

Digital Preservation: The process of ensuring that a digital object is accessible over the long term.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals, https://doaj.org/

DSpace: DSpace is an open-source repository software package typically used for creating open-access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. Busitema University selected to use DSpace to manage and preserve the digital Works and it is called the Institutional Repository, https://www.dspace.com/en/pub/home.cfm 

Dublin Core: The Dublin Core, also known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), is a set of fifteen "core" elements (properties) for describing resources. This fifteen-element Dublin Core has been formally standardized as ISO 15836, ANSI/NISO Z39.85, and IETF RFC 5013. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), which formulates the Dublin Core, is a project of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), a non-profit organization. The core properties are part of a larger set of DCMI Metadata Terms. "Dublin Core" is also used as an adjective for Dublin Core metadata, a style of metadata that draws on multiple Resource Description Framework (RDF) vocabularies, packaged and constrained in Dublin Core application profiles. DSpace uses Dublin Core Metadata Elements Set.

Embargo (Academic Publishing): In academic publishing, an embargo is a period during which access to academic journals is not allowed to users who have not paid for access (or have access through their institution). All materials accepted for archiving in the Busitema University Institutional Repository aren't under any embargo unless explicitly stated and required by the author. This means that if the author requires to impose an embargo on their Work(s), then a form shall be filled out indicating the period of the embargo. 

Evaluation: Systematic and objective assessment of an on-going or completed project/programme or policy in order to determine the relevance and fulfilment of objectives as well as efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability (Glossary definition).

Final Version of the Article: The author’s version with any changes made as a result of the peer-review process, but prior to publisher’s copy-editing or formatting.

Institutional Repository (IR): An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. Busitema University academics shall utilize the BU-IRs for archiving not only published works but also unpublished scholarly materials so as to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics..

Irrevocable License: The permission granted may not be taken back; there are no fees associated with the permission granted, and the permission applies worldwide.

Item: Any scholarly work being deposited including abstract, text, images and related data. 

Metadata: Metadata are structured, encoded data that describe characteristics of information-bearing entities to aid in the identification, discovery, assessment, and management of the described entities.“ ALCTS Committee on Cataloging Task Force on Metadata Summary Report (June 1999). “…machine understandable information about web resources or other things”  -- Tim Berners-Lee, Director of World Wide Web Consortium", “structured data about resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations” – Michael Day, UKOLN.

Monitoring: Continuing function that uses the systematic collection of data on specified indicators to inform management and the stakeholders of an on-going project/program of the extent of progress and achievement of the results (Glossary definition).

Non-exclusive rights: After an author grants non-exclusive rights, he/she still retains ownership and complete control of the copyright in their writings, subject only to this prior license. The author can exercise copyright in any way he/she deems fit, including transferring them to a publisher as desired.

Not sold for a profit: Busitema University will not generate a profit from exercising the rights granted but could recover costs for a service related to the articles, such as printed course packs.

Open Archives Initiative (OAI): The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements.

Open-access repository: Journal articles stored and made available on the internet for free, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful, non-commercial purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

Scholarly articles: A scholarly article is a document with the following characteristics: an abstract, a bibliography, and appendices (when necessary); the author's affiliation and publishing date are provided; and peer review. The scholarly article describes the fruits of their research and that they give to the world for the sake of inquiry and knowledge without expectation of payment. Such articles are typically presented in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and conference proceedings.

Staff: Any person who is employed by Busitema University, including academic, administrative, and support staff.

Universal Resource Locator (URL): This is a pointer to a ‘resource’ on the World Wide Web; a unique address for a file that is accessible on the internet. The URL for the Busitema Institutional Repository is www.ir.busitema.ac.ug