About Copyright & Licenses

Copyright

Copyright in works contained in this repository is owned by either authors or publishers/academic societies. When you use an article or material deposited in this repository, you must comply with the provisions of the Copyright Law of Japan concerning private use and quotation, unless the terms of use for the work you intend to use are specified by a Creative Commons or any other license. If the intended use exceeds the scope of personal use or quotation which is stipulated in the Copyright Law, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Copyright in works contained in this repository is owned by either authors or publishers/academic societies. When you use an article or material deposited in this repository, you must comply with the provisions of the Copyright Law of Japan concerning private use and quotation, unless the terms of use for the work you intend to use are specified by a Creative Commons or any other license. If the intended use exceeds the scope of personal use or quotation which is stipulated in the Copyright Law, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Creative Commons licenses

• Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization which promotes proper dissemination and reuse of content. The term also means their projects.
• Creative Commons licenses are tools that authors can use to specify the terms of use of their work, as defined by Creative Commons. It is a global initiative to help authors/copyright holders to initially clarify their and user rights as well as the terms of reuse, thereby sparing both the author/copyright holder and the user from the trouble they may have to take.
• Works and materials in this repository marked with a Creative Commons license may be redistributed and remixed under the terms of the applied license.

Notes

Author’s manuscript/Type of version

Some articles contained in this repository are authors’ manuscripts before publication. The final published version of the article may differ from the author’s manuscript in terms of layout, page number, or level of proofreading. Please refer to the published version when you want to quote from an article. You can see whether the article is the author’s manuscript or the published version by checking the “oaire:version” field of the item information page.

Version Type

• AO : Author's Original (Any version of which the author considers to have sufficient quality for the submission to formal peer review)
• AM : Accepted Manuscript (The version that has been accepted to be published. The content and layout comply with the publisher’s requirements for submission)
• VoR : Version of Record (The publisher’s version. This includes any versions for ‘early release’.)
• P : Proof (A version that has been produced during publication process between AM and VoR. The content has been changed from AM, but the layout is of the publisher’s.)
• NA : Not Applicable (or Unknown) (A version that is not applicable or unknown)

Disclaimer

Osaka University will not be responsible for any loss or damage caused by deposit in OUKA, public release, or use of works and materials via OUKA.

Prohibitions

• Extensive systematic search and mass downloading of works and materials contained in this repository is prohibited.
• Any other act which may obstruct the operation of this repository is also prohibited