By signing and submitting this agreement, I grant St. Mary’s College of Maryland (the College) a no cost, nonexclusive right and license to include scholarly material created by me in the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (MD-SOAR), or another repository system that the College may in the future utilize in the place of MD-SOAR, and through the repository to reproduce, publicly display, and distribute the material at no cost to users world-wide provided the College does not alter the content of the material. I understand that if I wish to publish the material with a third party that requires me to assign to it all my rights in the material then I may direct the College to remove the material from MD-SOAR. In such an event, I understand that a bibliographic reference to the material will be retained in the repository, but the material will be removed to a "dark archive" that is not publicly accessible. I represent that I am the sole or joint owner of the entire copyright in the material or, to the extent that I do not hold copyright in any part of the material, that I have written authority from the owner of copyright to grant this license to St. Mary’s College of Maryland. If the material is based on work that was sponsored or supported by an agency or entity other than the College, I represent that I complied with any requirements the sponsor may have imposed on publication including a right of review or inclusion of an acknowledgement of its support.

This agreement will be interpreted and governed in accordance with applicable Federal law and the laws of the State of Maryland without reference to its conflict of laws rules.