Publicly-accessible Texts, Images and Sounds

While this Website is publicly-accessible, not all the materials are in the public domain -- the majority of the images, texts and data are copyrighted to the American Museum of Natural History -- and a number of other texts and images are still copyrighted to their original print publishers or digitizers and made available here with permission. We have put great effort and expense into producing this site, and we hope the results are useful to a broad audience.

By their use of these texts and images, users agree to follow these conditions of use:

These texts and images may NOT be used for any commercial purpose without permission from the American Museum of Natural History Library

Educators are welcome to print out items and distribute them to their students or to otherwise use these materials for formal or informal instruction.

These texts and images may not be re-published in print or electronic form without permission from the American Museum of Natural History.

Users are NOT permitted to download our texts, images and data in order to mount them on their own servers for public use or for use by a set of subscribers. It is not in our interest or that of our users to have uncontrolled subsets of our holdings available elsewhere on the Internet. We make corrections, add tags, add images, etc. on a continual basis, and we want the most current text to be the only one generally available to all Internet users.

Individuals and institutions can, of course, make a link to this Website, subject to our conditions of use.

These texts can potentially be used as a testbed for the basis for additional mark-up/ tagging or for some other digital projects, but we ask that you let us know before you start, so that we can coordinate work on that text and make sure that we are not working on it simultaneously.

Our thanks are due to the many projects and individuals who have contributed to these collections. New works will be added on a continuing basis.

(The specific terms of negotiated secondary licensing agreements follow. Detailed files of all license agreements are maintained by the AMNH Digital Library)