Content available on this site has been provided by EOL's data partners, who may have placed restrictions on how you can re-use that content.

Please note that a single page may be made up of many different data elements, each covered by a different license. You are required to check to see which license applies to any portion(s) of the page you wish to re-use and to abide by any restrictions on that content.

The Creative Commons has set up a robust, free, easy-to-use set of protocols by which content owners can easily mark their creative work with the freedoms or restrictions that they want the information to carry.

In most cases, EOL data partners have made content available for re-use under one of the following Creative Commons licenses:

• CC-BY (Attribution), which allows users to copy, transmit and reuse the information, and to remix or adapt the information, as long as attribution regarding the source of the information is maintained. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
• CC-BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike), which has the additional constraint on top of CC-BY that if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
• CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial), which has the additional constraint on top of CC-BY that you may not use this work for commercial purposes. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
• CC-BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) which has the additional constraint on top of CC-BY that if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license and that you may not use this work for commercial puroposes. (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

To identify the terms of re-use of a photograph or drawing, click on the green information button on the bottom left corner of the picture.

Re-use terms for text items are located immediately above the text.

If you wish to re-use any content for purposes other than those allowed by the associated Creative Commons license, you must get permission to do so from the copyright holder (Source).

If there is no re-use information associated with an item (e.g. most of the literature provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library), then there are no re-use restrictions on this content.