ALEX Research Data Usage and Licensing
This notice explains the reuse terms for the ALEX bibliographic research collection published by the RISE Information Security Foundation. ALEX indexes and describes research created by many independent authors and publishers. RISE can license its own contributions, but cannot license materials owned by those third parties.
1. RISE-created contributions: CC BY 4.0
To the extent RISE holds applicable copyright or database rights, RISE's original contributions to the ALEX bibliographic corpus are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). These contributions may include:
- Original research categorizations, investigation-type classifications and editorial tags prepared by RISE for ALEX.
- Original RISE-authored bibliographic annotations, descriptions and editorial commentary (not text reproduced from third-party sources).
- Original curation, selection and arrangement of the ALEX bibliographic collection, to the extent legally protectable.
CC BY 4.0 permits copying, sharing and adaptation, including commercial reuse, subject to its attribution and other terms. No exclusive rights are claimed over individual bibliographic facts such as author names, publication dates or DOIs.
2. Third-party material is excluded
The RISE licence does not apply to third-party content, even where it appears in ALEX's CSV or JSON downloads. This includes:
- Research papers, PDFs, figures, tables, slides and other works by external authors or publishers.
- Abstracts, summaries, excerpts, descriptions or other text originally supplied by publishers, authors, academic indexes or aggregators, unless the relevant rights holder separately permits reuse.
- Third-party trademarks, logos, images and other proprietary materials.
Links to papers do not grant rights in the linked works. Check the source and any applicable licence before reproducing or redistributing third-party content. This notice does not restrict uses of facts or other material for which permission is not legally required.
3. Attribution
When redistributing or adapting RISE-licensed contributions, provide appropriate credit to RISE, link to the CC BY 4.0 licence, identify the ALEX source where practicable and indicate changes, in accordance with CC BY 4.0. For example:
Includes original ALEX bibliographic classifications and annotations by RISE Information Security Foundation, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: ALEX Research Library. [Indicate any modifications.]
Attribution does not imply that RISE endorses your work or use of the data.
4. Scope and warranties
The public CSV and JSON contain a mixture of bibliographic facts, RISE contributions and information originating from third parties. The RISE licence applies only to the RISE-controlled contributions described above, not indiscriminately to every field or record. Source attribution and any rights notices from third parties remain applicable.
Software code, branding and website assets are not licensed by this data notice unless expressly identified above. Material is provided without warranties, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
For the licence's full terms, consult the CC BY 4.0 legal code.