The following are general rules that apply to a number of different i-r&t courses.

Copyrights

• The contents of this study site are copyright-protected. For educational purposes and with proper attribution to the source, however, all material from the open access sections of the site may be reproduced and shared. We appreciate receiving notifications and / or copies of documents with any materials you do use. If you intend to use material from this study section other than for educational purposes, please contact kurt.hanselmann@erdw.ethz.ch

• It is a point of honor that you use the offerings of this course for your own learning and for your professional improvement.
  The material presented in this course may not be misused in any way.
• Upload only trusted sources of information, cite or acknowledge them properly.
• Please check all texts for plagiarism before you submit and upload them.


• Work submitted by you for evaluation is expected to be a personal achievement that represents your own abilities.
  You are asked to acknowledge that you did the submitted work yourself and independently or together with other people who are listed as contributors to your work.
  Your work and other sources of information will be added to the course repository in the OLAT file exchange folder (password protected), which is available to all enrolled course participants.

• Be respectful of those with whom you collaborated along the way from discussing ideas, designing concepts and sample collection, to analysing and publishing and involve them appropriately in your work.
  
• Please acknowledge the course in your presentations and publications.

• Our courses encourage participants to share samples between research groups in order to obtain a maximum of scientific information from the collected material. We ask you to clearly identify the origin of any sample in publications and presentations and to mention the course (occasion, event, institution) that made the collection possible.
• You must follow the rules in force by the countries of origin for samples collected in and transported out of the particular country. Some countries require export permits for any kind of biotic and abiotic samples. Importing countries might require an import authorization. You are responsible for clarifying the rules and ways to fulfill them, if you intend to collect, export and import sample material.
• It is the policy of our courses to follow the recommendations outlined in the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. All course participants must agree and share this philosophy.