Author-ity 2006 Use Conditions

1. The dataset will not be distributed, in part or whole, to others and security measures will be taken to prevent such distribution (e.g., limiting access to network-based query interfaces, and password-protecting access to local storage devices).
2. The dataset will be used exclusively for non-profit academic research, and not, e.g., for administrative tasks or decision making. Any use that goes beyond non-profit academic research will need to involve negotiations and licensing with The University of Illinois at Chicago, who holds the intellectual property rights to Author-ity.
3. If any derivative data or tools are developed, you will notify us and they will be made available, in a manner consistent with condition 1 above, for non-profit academic research at no charge.
4. Any resulting publications should cite Torvik et al. (2005) and Torvik and Smalheiser (2009).

Torvik VI, Weeber M, Swanson DR, Smalheiser NR. (2005) A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: a model for author name disambiguation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56(2): 140-158.

Torvik, V. I. and Smalheiser, N. R. (2009) Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 3(3):11.

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Last modified: Sun Feb 22 2009