Using Understanding Science media and content

Content and media owned or made by the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) for the Understanding Science (US) website are licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (BY-NC-SA 4.0) Creative Commons License. Using content and/or media owned by the UC Museum of Paleontology requires adherence to the Creative Commons license.

The US website may contain content and/or media for which the UCMP does not own the copyright. In these instances, we post the corresponding information on copyright and permitted uses.

Noncommercial use

We allow free use of individual media components created by or owned by the UCMP for noncommercial and educational purposes (e.g., in-class use of images or limited text by a teacher or student, or reproducing an image in a lab manual that will be provided to students at-cost). We ask that the work be credited with the following: © UC Museum of Paleontology Understanding Science, www.understandingscience.org.

You may cite the website using this format:

Understanding Science. 2022. University of California Museum of Paleontology. 3 January 2022 <http://www.understandingscience.org>.

… with the ‘3 January 2022’ being the date you accessed Understanding Science.

You may cite an individual article using this format:

“Asteroids and dinosaurs.” Understanding Science. University of California Museum of Paleontology. 3 January 2022 <https://undsci.berkeley.edu/asteroids-and-dinosaurs-unexpected-twists-and-an-unfinished-story/>.

… with the ‘3 January 2022’ being the date you accessed the article.

If you wish to reproduce many images or multiple webpages of content, please contact understandingscience@berkeley.edu for permission.

We do not require notification of use, however, we ask that we be notified of such use so we may include it in our statistics. You can let us know about your noncommercial use of our media by emailing understandingscience@berkeley.edu.

Commercial use

The UCMP charges use fees for commercial use of media, including for use in publications, exhibitions, or distribution in any format (print or digital). Requests with large distribution and/or high exposure may be subject to higher fees. These fees support the UCMP’s public outreach mission, which includes the maintenance of and creating new content on the UE website. Requests for commercial use may be sent to understandingscience@berkeley.edu.

All rights remain with the UCMP.

Use fees

Fees for commercial use by non-profit organizations vary or may be waived. Contact understandingscience@berkeley.edu to inquire. Fees below apply to for-profit organizations and are current as of October 2021.