1. Copyright of abstracts

Any abstracts contained in this corpus are from PubMed(R), a database
of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

NLM data are produced by a U.S. Government agency and include works of
the United States Government that are not protected by U.S. copyright
law but may be protected by non-US copyright law, as well as abstracts
originating from publications that may be protected by U.S. copyright
law.

NLM assumes no responsibility or liability associated with use of
copyrighted material, including transmitting, reproducing,
redistributing, or making commercial use of the data. NLM does not
provide legal advice regarding copyright, fair use, or other aspects
of intellectual property rights. Persons contemplating any type of
transmission or reproduction of copyrighted material such as abstracts
are advised to consult legal counsel.

2. Copyright of full texts

Any full texts contained in this corpus are from the PMC Open Access
Subset of PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health
(NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal
literature.

Articles in the PMC Open Access Subset are protected by copyright, but
are made available under a Creative Commons or similar license that
generally allows more liberal redistribution and reuse than a
traditional copyrighted work. Please refer to the license of each
article for specific license terms.

3. Copyright of named entity and event annotations

The copyrights of annotations created in the GENIA Project of Tsujii
Laboratory, University of Tokyo, belong in their entirety to the GENIA
Project.

4. Copyright of BioCause Annotations

The causality annotations are the result of work carried
out at and the copyrights belong entirely to the
National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), School of Computer Science,
University of Manchester, UK.

5. Licence terms

Use and distribution of abstracts drawn from PubMed is subject to the
PubMed(R) license terms as stated in Clause 1.

Use and distribution of full texts is subject to the license terms
applying to each publication.

Annotations created by the GENIA Project are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or
send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900,
Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

The causality annotations are copyrighted and licenced by NaCTeM under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or
send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900,
Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

Annotations created by NaCTeM must be attributed as
detailed in Clause 5.

6. Attribution

Please attribute the corpus by citing the following paper:
Mih&#259;il&#259;, C., Ohta, T., Pyysalo, S. and Ananiadou, S.
BioCause: Annotating and analysing causality in the biomedical domain.
In BMC Bioinformatics, in press.

7. References

- GENIA Project : http://www.geniaproject.org
- PubMed : http://www.pubmed.gov/
- NLM (United States National Library of Medicine) : http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) : http://www.mext.go.jp/
- JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) : http://www.jst.go.jp
