Data sharing policy

CRIA promotes free and open sharing of specimen occurrence data through the speciesLink network.

All data, texts and images are sent to the network by biological collections and researchers from the Brazil and abroad. All textual data that the network serves adopts the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which gives the user the right to share (copy and redistribute) and adapt or transform and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially. In return, users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made.

Images integrated into the network by biological collections and researchers are served under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Users are free to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. Users are also free to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. If users remix, transform or build upon the material, they must distribute their contributions under the same license as the original.