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NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Libary User's Guide

Using Images from the Library

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1068
by Helfer and Blitz, courtesy of ADIL

The goals of the ADIL's policy toward the use of images found on our server are:

to provide easy access to scientific-quality images for the purposes of scientific and educational use,
to assure that proper credit is given to those who have provided us with data,
to encourage further use of the images that respects the scientific integrity of the data,
to encourage acknowledgement of the role of the ADIL in the research and publication process.

If you wish to download and use images found in the ADIL's collection, we ask that you respect these goals by following the guidelines described below. In general, use of the images should acknowledge the authors of the image and the ADIL.

Research, Educational, and Private Non-commercial Use

The data in the ADIL is provided for free use for scientific research and educational purposes. Any such use of the data resulting in publication (electronic or paper) should properly credit the authors listed with the data in the Library. Bibliographies should include references to the relevent, previously published literature associated with the data. The author list and bibliographical references (in ADS notation) can be found on the Project and Preview pages associated with the data. Most professional publications have style guidelines for crediting previous work; such guidelines should similarly be applied to the use of data from the ADIL. An example of crediting authors in a Web document when guidelines don't exist can be found at the top of this document.

Researchers that download an image for further analysis should take care to familiarize themselves with the observational context of the image (e.g. the instrument used, image processing history, associated measurement errors) to help ensure the integrity of the analysis. This can be done by first consulting the related published articles. When the published literature is insufficient, researchers are encouraged to contact the authors of the image for further consultation. An email address for the primary contact person can be obtained by accessing the Project Abstract from either the image's Project or Preview page.

Library users should also note that some of the images are copyrighted. While none of the copyrights restrict the use of the images for research purposes, users should consult the associated copyright statement before reproducing the material.

Except when restricted by a specific copyright, private non-commercial use of data in the Library is allowed.

Finally, the ADIL would appreciate acknowledgement in any new publications resulting from research that made use of the Library.

Commercial Use

Those who wish to use any data from the Library (including GIF preview images) for commercial purposes must contact the authors to secure permission to do so. Commercial users are expected to give proper acknowledgement in a manner that is agreeable to the authors. For use of those images marked as copyrighted, commercial users must consult the associated copyright statement and contact the relevent parties referred to there.

Commercial users are also asked to acknowledge the ADIL for providing data obtained from the ADIL's server.

Contacting the Authors

Each image in the Library has an associated Preview Page (accessable from the Results Page returned from a search query) that describes the image. Similarly, each project has a Project Page that describes the project. All Project and Preview Pages contains a link labeled "Abstract/Tbl" that gives access to further descriptive information about the project. Included in that information is an email address for the contact person for the project (usually the project's first author). This email address can be used to contact the authors regarding use of images from their project.

Acknowledging the ADIL

To recognize the role of the ADIL in scientific research and education, we ask that publications resulting from use of data obtained from the ADIL include an acknowledgement of our service. We recommend a statement something like the following:

The [author[s]/publisher] would like to thank the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL) for providing images for this article.

When appropriate, you can include the URL for the ADIL's home page: http://adil.ncsa.uiuc.edu/.

An abbreviated acknowledgement can be associated with a particular image or reference of the form "courtesy of ADIL", as shown in the example above, provided that the ADIL's full name (NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library) or home page URL is found elsewhere in the article.

Questions

General questions concerning the use of data provided by the ADIL may be addressed to Dr. Raymond Plante at adil@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

The Astronomy Digital Image Library is a project of Radio Astronomy Imaging Team
at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contact the ADIL: adil@ncsa.uiuc.edu