The Stanford University Libraries (SUL) recognize that research, discovery, and scholarly communications are critically reliant on metadata. Scholars, publishers, librarians, archivists and knowledge organizations have, for centuries, engaged in cooperative metadata exchange and enrichment in building the commonwealth of human knowledge.
SUL is committed to open sharing and reuse of metadata. SUL releases library metadata with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0). Patron data, business data, and data with contractual, copyright, privacy or security concerns are excepted from this policy.
SUL supports open metadata by investing in open infrastructure and contracts for value-added services; SUL objects to contracts that restrict metadata reuse. When engaged in cooperative projects, SUL works to establish that all metadata produced therein will be open.
SUL requests (but does not require) that, when feasible, users acknowledge the skill and labor involved in the creation and stewardship of metadata by attributing Stanford University Libraries as the data source. In the spirit of information sharing, SUL encourages you to make any enrichments or derivatives of this metadata freely available under a CC0 deed.