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Introduction. The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides Standard Reference Data (SRD) copyrighted by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the United States of America. All rights reserved. None of our SRD may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission.

Authority - Standard Reference Data Act - Public Law 90-396, July 11, 1968, The Standard Reference Data Act. Purpose: To provide for the collection, compilation, critical evaluation, publication and sale of standard reference data. Excerpt: Section 6 ... the Secretary may secure copyright and renewal thereof on behalf of the United States as author or proprietor in all or any part of any standard reference data which he prepares or makes available under this Act and may authorize the reproduction and publication thereof by others. Public Law 114-329, January 6, 2017,S. 3084 American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, Section 108, Standard Reference Data Act Update. Purpose: To modify the definition of Standard Reference Data provided in Public Law 90-396.

Standard Reference Data - SRD is (A) either [1.] quantitative information related to a measurable physical, or chemical, or biological property of a substance or system of substances of known composition and structure; [2.] measurable characteristics of a physical artifact or artifacts; [3.] engineering properties or performance characteristics of a system; or [4.] one or more digital data objects that serve to calibrate or characterize the performance of a detection or measurement system; or to interpolate or extrapolate, or both, data described in 1-3; and (B) that is critically evaluated as to its reliability under section 290b of Title 15 of the United States Code. Digital data objects may include fingerprints, personal identity verification cards, videos, models, and software.

Copyright - Standard Reference Databases are created and evaluated by NIST. Copyright protection on this compilation of data has been secured by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce on behalf of the United States Government in the United States and in countries that are parties to the Universal Copyright Convention, pursuant to Section 290(e) of Title 15 of the United States Code.

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Site Licenses of NIST Standard Reference Data - SRD products available on removeable media or downloaded from NIST and require installation on individual systems or are accessible from Licensee Intranet applications. Site licenses grant Licensee up to an unlimited number of Authorized Users. Site licenses require a separate Agreement signed by Licensee and NIST and grant additional rights beyond the SRD General Terms and Conditions.

Online Subscription to NIST Standard Reference Databases - SRD products accessed online, Authorized Users authenticate with username and password or Licensee provided IP Addresses. SRD subscriptions provide access to data for one year or more and expire if the subscription is not renewed. Licensee hereby agrees that systematic downloading of material, e.g., use of scripts (spiders, web crawlers, etc.) to access and download bulk data through the Online Subscription, is strictly prohibited and a violation of this Agreement. Licensee and Authorized users may not share username and passwords to other than Authorized users.

Software Developers of NIST Standard Reference Data - SRD products incorporated into Internet, customer facing, systems created by Licensee to provide non-revenue generating services to their customers such as a public facing sales tool. Software Develops require a separate Agreement signed by Licensee and NIST and grant additional rights beyond the SRD General Terms and Conditions.

Distributors of NIST Standard Reference Data - Licensees with Distributor Agreements for specific SRD products may redistribute SRD data in Licensees products for resale. SRD Distributor Agreements must be signed by NIST and Licensee and supersede Rights defined in the General Terms and Services License.

Citation Example - In the absence of other (e.g., journal) defined requirements, these recommendations provide a consistent manner for appropriate attribution to scientific datasets that are made available under NIST's public access policy. The following minimum requirements and format should be used to cite NIST datasets (a URL is used if a PID is not available): Author/editor (Publication Year), Title, Publisher, Persistent Identifier (PID) or URL (Access date)

Example: Siderius, D.W., Shen, V.K., Johnson III, R.D., and van Zee, R.D., eds. (2013), NIST/ARPA-E Database of Novel and Emerging Adsorbent Materials, NIST Standard Reference Database 205, National Institute of Standards and Technology, https://doi.org/10.18434/T43882 (Accessed July 13, 2016)

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