Kumar, There is no copyright violation in creating repository of your own institution's internal publications unless they are published externally. However, you need to have copyright clearance for the publications/documents already published externally (Journals/Conferences/workshops etc). As most of us know, off-late few major publishers have revised their copyright policies and now they would allow authors/institutions to retain and enable access to the published documents within the author's organization. Ofcourse, the rights differ from publisher to publisher. Its important to read latest copyright policies of publishers before you consider using their publications/documents. You may want to know that, some international organizations have "copyright transfer form" in place to ensure that publishers grant permission to authors/institutions to host the content within the organization at the time of submitting the manuscript for publication. This might be a solution for your future publications. Best Regards, Anand Ananda T. Byrappa Manager, Library & Information Services Whitney Knowledge Centre GE Global Research 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa@ge.com -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in]On Behalf Of lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:37 AM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 39, Issue 12 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. IPR and copyright (Kumar N) 2. Indianjournals.com - Seminars (Mailing List Manager) 3. Re: IPR and copyright (Sukhdev Singh) 4. Re: Re: [bytesforall_readers] India-linked open accessjournals on doaj.org (sathya) 5. [Fwd: Overcoming the obstacles of harvesting and searching digital (arun@mssrf.res.in) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: 8 Jun 2006 10:09:16 -0000 From: "Kumar N" <kumar_dglin@rediffmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] IPR and copyright To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <20060608100916.3218.qmail@webmail47.rediffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"   Dear Sir/Madam, I am N.Kumar, working as a "Project Assistant" in INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. I would like to build a digital repository for our institutional internal reports and scientist research papers published in national and international journals. In this regard, I need to know more about copy right information and IPR about making digital format of this. And also I want to know that is it possible to add someother digital files from outside into our digital repository?. I request to senior most professional, Please advice me in this regard. Kindest regards, N.Kumar. Project Assistant, INCOIS Library, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad. Bye, Take Care, Cheers! Kumar.N.