Eligibility & Conditions of Use
CDS/DL Usernames
Please note that usernames issued for the STFC CrystalWorks server
at Daresbury are for the use of STFC CrystalWorks facilities only.
They are separate
and distinct from any usernames issued for the EPSRC Physical
Sciences Data-science Service website at https://www.psds.ac.uk/
CDS/DL usernames are issued to individual users and not to groups.
Users are responsible for their own username and the lending of
usernames to other parties is not permitted. Users are also
responsible for ensuring that their username is not used for
industrial or commercial work.
The CDS/DL computer systems are for running the database and ancillary
packages only. Users are not permitted to compile, develop or run
their own or other code without prior permission from the CDS/DL.
Users' name, contact information and certain accounting information
about computer use at Daresbury will be stored on a computer at
Daresbury.
Personal data will only be used, where needed, for the running and
administering of the CDS/DL.
In general no data which can be linked to an identifiable user will be
revealed to any third party, but limited information may be passed on
to the EPSRC Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS).
This is to comply with specific licensing requirements for the
CrystalWorks system.
As part of the registration conditions, users will receive occasional
broadcast messages providing news of Service developments. These will be
sent using the email address "pmpat@stfc.ac.uk"
Downloading data from the CDS/DL
In general downloading of material from databases provided by the
CDS/DL is allowed provided it is for academic use.
However, global downloads of datasets are specifically forbidden.
Downloaded material cannot be used for commercial purposes.
In addition downloading may be subject to specific licensing
restriction between the relevant database suppliers and the Royal
Societ of Chemistry
(see specific conditions for the use of CrystalWorks and for the
Cambridge Structural Database).
Specific CrystalWorks conditions of use
CrystalWorks has been developed and is maintained by the
STFC Scientific Computing Department at Daresbury Laboratory
We provide UK wide academic access to the CrystalWorks system through
an agreement with the EPSRC Physical Sciences Data-science Service
(PSDS), which is operated by a consortium between the University of
Southampton and the STFC.
Please note that the CrystalWorks has been developed and is maintained
by the STFC at Daresbury, but is provided under terms of agreement
with the PSDS. It is also be made available via the PSDS
website
Your CDS/DL username is for the web server on the Daresbury site only.
It will not provide access to CrystalWorks and other components
available via the PSDS Service website, which employ different access
controls.
Access is available to eligible users only. To allow the PSDS to meet
their licensing requirements we are required to pass on some
information to the PSDS about new users when they register.
Information will be limited to your name, department and email
address. Information will not be passed on to 3rd parties or used for
purposes other than CrystalWorks related support.
Specific Cambridge Structural Database
conditions of use
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), who own the
copyright of the CSD and the CSD System, make them available to
academic users who undertake to abide by the following conditions:
1. The CSD and the CSD System shall not be used in conjunction with
any joint or consulting project with any non-academic organisation
without written permission of the CCDC.
Academic organisations are defined as not-for-profit, or charitable
organisations, supported by private, charitable or Government funding,
whose staff may freely publish the results of scientific research
through the normal academic channels.
2. The CSD and the CSD System (including downloaded data, manuals,
results and printed products) shall be used exclusively for the
purposes of scientific training and research, which may include
research such as, for example, into drug development or drug
modifications capable of commercial exploitation.
The results of such research may be published through the normal
academic channels provided one or more of the appropriate references
is quoted:
3. The data held in the CSD or information derived or obtained from,
or by the use of, the CSD or the CSD System is not (whether separately
or in combination with other material) distributed or otherwise
exploited (except through the product of scientific research as
aforesaid) on a commercial or for-profit basis whether in printed,
photographic, computer readable or other form, without prior written
permission from the CCDC.
This restriction applies in particular, but not exclusively, to data
compilations, educational aids, fragment libraries and software
systems.
4. The user does not develop, for distribution, software to interface
to the CSD or CSD System or subfiles derived thereof, without prior
written permission from the CCDC.
5. The user shall not copy (including indirectly) the CSD or CSD
System or the documentation supplied in whole or in part or in any
form whatsoever, whether machine readable or not.
6. The user will comply with and abide by the terms of licence of
access made between the CCDC and Daresbury Laboratory, a copy of which
is available for inspection.
Conditions of access to STFC network & server systems
The STFC Chemical Database Service is part of the Support &
Service Programme of the Computational Science and Engineering
Department and is based at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory.
Access to the CDS is free of charge to eligible users, but the Service
is currently only available to "UK Academics".
A UK Academic is defined as someone employed by, or working at a
Higher or Further Education Instutute or related Research Institute
(e.g. operated by one of the UK Research Councils) within the UK.
This includes lecturers, students, post-doc workers, technicians,
librarians, information officers, visiting academics for duration of
the visit etc.
The STFC CDS at Daresbury shall be used exclusively for academic
research or teaching, i.e. non-profit making research and teaching at
academic institutions.
The results of such research may be freely published through the
normal academic channels.
Users of STFC network services are also bound by the Terms and
Conditions of the STFC Telecommunications Monitoring and Acceptable
Use Policy and by the JANET Acceptable Use Policy. Details are
available at the
link.
Anyone in breach of the CDS Conditions of Use may be barred from using
the CDS/DL and other STFC facilities.