Users of Open Context and the Penelope import tool agree to abide by the following terms and conditions of use.

Please note: These terms and conditoins are subject to change. We invite your input in shaping them to best serve the user community. Please post your comments to the Open Context Wiki (click here).

*These terms apply to anyone putting content into OR taking information from Open Context.

Terms and Conditions for Using Open Contex*

Welcome to Open Context, an online service of the Alexandria Archive Institute, a nonprofit corporation. Your use of Open Context will be subject to the terms of this Terms of Service Agreement (TOS). The TOS may change from time to time. Use of service after a change will subject you to the new terms. Some terms will not change and these are: (1) We will not sell any personal data. (2) Open Context will remain accessible as a free-of-charge and open access resource. (3) Future revisions of this TOS will be to help us meet our open access mission and to encourage better and freer access and use of this resource. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THE SERVICE.

Open Context is a searchable resource that recognizes the importance of authorship in scholarship. Unless explicitly indicated, the content in Open Context is likely NOT in the public domain. Contributors to Open Context own copyright to the content they contribute. Contributors license their content for certain uses. By using Open Context, you agree to the licensing conditions (if any) that contributors impose on their content. By using Open Context you also agree to adhere to appropriate social norms for your profession. In other words, please treat the content presented here as scholarly. This means you should properly cite and attribute authors for their scholarly contributions regardless of the applicability of copyright protections on the content presented here. Failure to do so violates professional ethics and may violate the legal terms of some copyright licenses.

NOTE: Some Open Context contributors may want to disseminate content but restrict commercial uses. In such cases they will choose a Creative Commons license with a "Noncommercial" restriction. In such cases, all content carrying a Noncommercial licensing term may still be used in professional, scholaraly publication (journals, monographs) or for instructional applications (textbooks and related media), even if such material is sold. All other commercial applications are restricted and require specific permission from the copyright holder.

Use of Open Context means you agree not to post any content that (1) is obscene, abusive, threatening to others, or in violation of any law; or (2) infringes the copyright, trademark rights, or other intellectual property right of other parties.

You will be solely responsible for all content that you post on the Open Context. Open Context, its sponsors, developers, volunteers, and hosts are not liable for any judgments, damages, and costs (including attorney's fees) that arise out of or are related to the content that you post.

NOTE: While using Open Context, you may encounter content relating to the documentation and analysis of human remains. Open Context requires that the providers of such content abide by professional ethical standards regarding the presentation and dissemination of potentially sensitive types of documentation. If you believe that some content is inappropriate for presentation and dissemination through Open Context, please contact (contact@alexandriaarchive.org) and we will take down the material pending review.

Open Context and its sponsors reserve the right to monitor content any posted on its forum, and to modify or remove any postings that they deem to be abusive, defamatory, in breach of scholarly ethical codes, in violation of third party intellectual property rights or otherwise inappropriate for Open Context.