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PERMISSION FOR COMMERCIAL REUSE

Commercial reuse of the MicrobeLibrary resources is granted on an individual basis. To process a request for permission to reuse MicrobeLibrary resources, the ASM requires:

1. Information page describing nature of commercial reuse
2. Signed license agreement
3. Fee

Information Page.  All descriptions must include the following information (pdf).  Failure to provide this information will delay the approval process.  

• Title of Prospective Resource


• URL Address of Prospective Resource


• Commercial or Derivative Use of Prospective Resource


• Audience Type (e.g. educators, students, public, adults, youth)


• Scope (e.g. international, national)


• Language


• Format (e.g. print, electronic-CD, electronic-website, e-book)


• Size (e.g. print run, webpage visitors, unit count)


• Duration (e.g. version, edition, or time period)


• Name of Publisher, Producer, Organization, Agency or Business


• Type of Publication or Production (e.g. education, public service, promotional)


• Type of Business (e.g. for-profit, not-for-profit)

License Agreement.  Please read and sign the license agreement form (pdf).

Fee.  The fees for each image for single use are:

• $100 not-for-profit organization


• $200 for-profit organization

Only payments in the form of check, money order (made out to ASM) or credit card will be accepted.  Purchase orders are not acceptable. ASM Federal ID # 38-1616141.

License agreements are available for a maximum of 2 years for on-line resources and 3 years for print resources. 

Please contact the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for further information.  When submitting by email, please be sure to include Reuse License Agreement and Your Company Name in the subject line and the attached signed license agreement form (pdf) and information page (pdf). 

CITATIONS 

The following format is used to cite MicrobeLIbrary resources:

Author’s last name, first name and co-authors’ first initial, last name. Publication date.  Title of work. Collection Name. Publisher, City, State. URL. Date of access.

Examples

Finer, Kim and John J. Finer. 2002. Normal and Abnormal Cell Division of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Visual Resources. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.  www.microbelibrary.org  Accessed 10 September 2010.

Multiple Authors. 2009. Kirby-Bauer Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Test. Atlas. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.  www.microbelibrary.org  Accessed 10 September 2010.

Jan Hudzicki. 2009.  Kirby-Bauer Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Test Protocol. Protocols. American Society for Microbiology,  Washington, DC.  www.microbelibrary.org  Accessed 10 September 2010.

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If you do not accept the terms as outlined above, please do not use resources from the MicrobeLibrary.  Improper use of materials will result in a loss of access to the MicrobeLibrary.