WINGS eLibrary Policy

General

WINGS recognizes the importance of access to knowledge and information for innovation and creation.  With the WINGS eLibrary, WINGS seeks to harness the intellectual power of the field and make it easily accessible to the grantmaker support field. In this spirit, the WINGS eLibrary offers references and provides hyperlinks to publicly available websites and documents that fall within its purview.

In offering these hyperlinks, WINGS acts in good faith with the assumption that it provides a service to the user who seeks to harness the wealth of material on the grantmaker support sector, and the authors and publishers who seek to make their information available. WINGS does not gain revenues, and it does not claim credit or ownership.

Respect for intellectual property rights

WINGS respects the intellectual property rights of any author or publisher to their works. It does not seek to present anybody else’s intellectual property as its own. It does not plagiarise. It will always properly attribute and reference the authors and publishers.

Linking to online documents on other servers

The WINGS eLibrary provides hyperlinks to other websites and online documents unless their terms and conditions forbid such links. If resources are free, WINGS will link to these documents. If they are restricted or offered for a charge, WINGS will link to the website where users can access/order the material, such as an online bookshop.

WINGS will provide these links as a service to users and organisations alike. Should any organisation ask WINGS to remove hyperlinks and references to any or all of its resources, WINGS will comply.

Hosting of documents on WINGS server

WINGS offers to host documents on its own server if no other hosting is available, provided they fall within the purview of the WINGS eLibrary. In hosting documents WINGS acts effectively as “publisher” of these documents, and will do so only with the author’s / copyright holder’s written agreement and confirmation that the documents’ intellectual property is not disputed.

Saving a document on the WINGS server

WINGS may save documents on its own server for review, indexing and classification purposes only. It will never make this document available to others, unless it is asked to host and distribute the document (see “Hosting of documents on WINGS server” above.)

No linking to pirated material

In providing hyperlinks, WINGS devotes great care not to link to material that is plagiarised, pirated, or of unclear origin. Should it come to WINGS’ attention that any WINGS hyperlink links to a document that is pirated or of unclear origin, WINGS will promptly remove this hyperlink.

Editorial discretion

WINGS strives to be comprehensive and neutral, but it retains control of the classification, abstract and other information with which it features and describes any material. WINGS will appreciate any comment and suggestion, and will be grateful when errors or omissions are pointed out; final editorial control, however, is with WINGS.

Restricted items or items for sale

Many of the items in the WINGS eLibrary are available freely. We also include items that are for sale or restricted (see definitions under availability), if the resource's content is deemed appropriate.

The WINGS Secretariat welcomes review copies, as it assists us in determining whether a resource should be added to the WINGS eLibrary.

5 October 2006

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