Common Requirements of All Use Agreements

Owned by Doug Boyer
Last updated: Dec 11, 2021
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The text below is the exact text of the entire permissive agreement and the initial part of all standard agreements on MorphoSource.  Note that it emphasizes the importance of additional agreements that may exist external to the document, as well as specific requirements for acknowledging the source of the media and for citing its use.

QUOTED FROM MORPHOSOURCE DOWNLOAD USE AGREEMENTS

*EVERY USER WHO HAS DOWNLOADED ANY MEDIA HAS AGREED TO DO THE FOLLOWING EACH TIME THEY DOWNLOADED MEDIA

I agree to comply with each of the following basic requirements (1, 2, and 3) below whenever I download or access from MorphoSource any file(s), image(s), or model(s) (each, individually and all collectively, as applicable, referred to as “data”) for use in any release, research paper, educational course, presentation, analysis project, website, blog post, social media post, or other public communication in the form of measurements, analyses, discussion, or 2D and 3D figures. I also agree that if I create digital or physical derivatives of the data (as distinguished from “data” or “original data”), I will comply with standards 1 and 2 immediately below, as well as the additional citation requirements and restrictions listed further below specifically referencing derivatives of data.

Basic Requirements

  1. Any instructions for data citation and funding acknowledgment found on the relevant MorphoSource page for the files.
  2. Any restrictions and requirements of any copyright licenses or usage agreements that may be attached to these files.
  3. Additional citation requirements and restrictions of use that are listed below.

Additional Citation Requirements and Restrictions of Use:

a. Acknowledgement of Source. Any release, research paper, educational course, presentation, analysis project, website, blog post, social media post, or other public communication referencing the data and/or derivatives of the data must clearly and explicitly identify MorphoSource, the collection organization (i.e., the specific collection, department, or laboratory), and the collection institution (i.e., the museum or university) as the original source of the data or derivative. This same acknowledgement must be made for data and/or derivatives of data originally sourced for MorphoSource that have been re-archived in third-party repositories (see below for any further restrictions on re-archival of this data or derivatives, if any exist).

b. Citation. Any release, research paper, educational course, presentation, analysis project, website, blog post, social media post, or other public communication referencing the data and/or digital or physical derivatives of the data will label, cite, or otherwise be captioned both with the institutional catalog number of the physical object or specimen that the data or derivative represents (preferably using the “Darwin Core triplet” of [Institution Code]:[Collection Code]:[Catalog Number]; for example, MCZ:Herp:A-12345), and the MorphoSource media identifier(s) of the downloaded file(s).  Specifically, the MorphoSource Digital Object Identifier (DOI) should be included when available. If a DOI is not available for the file object in question, then a MorphoSource Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifier must be included.These requirements for citation also apply to data and/or derivatives of data originally sourced on MorphoSource that have been re-archived in third-party.