Terms of Use

Terms and conditions – Kew Science Data & Resources

Licensing

The data and information available through the data and resources section of kew.org/science/data-and-resources are available under terms described in the licence field of individual dataset records (metadata).

All dataset metadata published on kew.org is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY.

Multimedia assets including images within datasets are subject to additional licence restrictions - by default this will be Creative Commons Attribution CC BY, and © copyright The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, or RBG Kew if space is limited.

Data usage

You may write papers or create software applications, visualisations, etc., that make use of data on this site. If you do use any of the data, please email the Biodiversity Informatics team at BI@kew.org so that we can provide any appropriate assistance.

If you extract and re-use any data from this site you should explicitly state that RBG, Kew cannot warrant the quality or accuracy of the data.

You must not in any way imply or explicitly state that a third-party use or service created using data from this site has the endorsement, affiliation, support or approval of RBG, Kew.

Traffic limits

To maintain a good service for all, API users must not exceed a certain number of requests per second, dependent on the current server load. We reserve the right to suspend API access for users that exceed these limits.

Citation and attribution

If you use any data licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY, please note that the terms require you to give an appropriate credit / citation. For data not licenced under CC-BY please refer to any associated terms or metadata which may indicate any accreditation requirements, or, if no conditions are stated, we strongly encourage you to cite or reference this work, as you would any other scientific research. 

Where we present scientific data generated by others, we impose no additional restriction on the use of the contributed data than those provided by the data owner.

Citing IPNI

'The International Plant Names Index (2012). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org [accessed 1 July 2012]*.

*[Please replace the year and date of accession with the appropriate date for your use of the system]

Citing MPNS

It may be cited as: Medicinal Plant Names Services Portal Version 6 Retrieved *

https://mpns.science.kew.org/mpns-portal/

*[Please replace the year and date of accession with the appropriate date for your use of the system]

Citing POWO

POWO (2019). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ Retrieved*."

*[Please replace the year and date of accession with the appropriate date for your use of the system]

Citing SEPASAL

"Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/sepasalweb/sepaweb [accessed day, month, year; time]"

Citing WCSP

WCSP (Current Year). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved *.'

If you would like to cite the families individually, please use the following format:

'Compiler(s), Reviewers(s) (Current Year). World Checklist of [Add Family]. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved *.'

*[Please replace the year and date of accession with the appropriate date for your use of the system]

The family reviewer and family compiler can be determined from the reviewer and compiler table.