Eligibility & Terms of Use

The 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. The CDS is one of the National Services funded by the Chemistry Programme of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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 CDS 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 provided use of the Service is duly acknowledged and correctly cited: Details on how to acknowledge and cite the Service available at the URL:

http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/acknowledge.html

CDS IDs are issued to individual users and not to groups. Users are responsible for their own ID and the lending of IDs to other parties is not permitted. Users are also responsible for ensuring that their ID is not used for industrial or commercial work.

CDS users 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:

http://www.ja.net/documents/publications/policy/aup.pdf.

The CDS 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.

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. No data which can be linked to an identifiable user will be revealed to any third party.

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"

Anyone in breach of the CDS Conditions of Use may be barred from using the CDS and other STFC facilities.

Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) 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:

The latest details about the appropriate references to cite is available at the URL:

http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/news/disp?citation_cam

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.