ACS Terms of Use
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has published this material and made it freely available online for personal research and educational use for a limited time. The material should not be used for re-distribution or posting, for incorporation into databases, for text and data mining, or for commercial applications. These terms and conditions are described below in further detail. The provisions below address public use of the material, which ACS will summarize when the material is posted.
Public Use Provisions:
1. For non-commercial research and education purposes only, users may access, download, save the material in personal files, and share the material, subject to the conditions noted herein.
2. Sharing for these purposes means posting the material (or DOI links to the material, which would be more permanent) in private research group files for access by researchers working on the same or directly related research projects. Further, sharing can mean emailing copies of the material or embedded DOI links (preferred) to other researchers, public officials, or media.
3. Non-commercial educational uses include the use of the material in course packs for the user’s own teaching and lectures (if the course pack is online, the inclusion of DOI links to the material is recommended, as this will ensure that the most up to date version of the material is used by students).
4. When downloading, copying, saving, sharing or communicating the material, users should not remove or tamper with any copyright notices or the display of unique Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), ACS or journal logos, bibliographic (e.g. authors, journal, Content title, volume, issue, page numbers) or other references to ACS journal titles, web links, and any other journal- specific “branding” or notices that might be included in the material.
5. Users may not sell, rent, republish, adapt, translate the material, or otherwise knowingly distribute or provide access to the material or any portions thereof to any third party (other than as permitted above), nor place this material on a public website, centralized content repository, file sharing site, or third-party data-repository.
6. The material may not be incorporated into a database or used for text and data mining.
7. Use of the material for commercial purposes is prohibited. Examples of such prohibited commercial purposes include but are not limited to (other than as expressly permitted herein):
- Copying or downloading of the material, or linking to the posting by ACS of the material, for further distribution, sale or licensing, for a fee;
- The inclusion or incorporation of the material in other works or services (other than normal quotations with an appropriate citation);
- Use of the material (other than normal quotations with appropriate citation) by a for-profit organization for its own promotional or marketing purposes, whether for a fee or otherwise, or use as part of a promotion, endorsement, or marketing campaign for non-ACS products or services without express permission of the ACS.
8. For permission to use ACS copyrighted content beyond that permitted here, visit: Copyright & Permissions.
9. Note that any use of the material as posted by ACS are without warranty from ACS or the authors of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. In no event shall ACS or the authors be liable for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information contained in the material.
10. Note that if the material is a journal article or book chapter published through the ACS AuthorChoice Open Access program, then the terms and conditions of any applicable public use license selected by the author shall apply, information about which shall be applied to the online posting of the Content.
11. If you are a member of a college, university, corporation or government research facility, you may also have access to this material on a more permanent basis through your institutional library. We suggest you contact them for additional details of their holdings.
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