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Individual data files in the geoBoundaries database are governed by the license
or licenses identified within the metadata for each respective boundary. Users
using individual boundary files from geoBoundaries should additionally
ensure that they are citing the sources provided in the metadata for each file.

## Citation of the geoBoundaries Data Product

geoBoundaries datasets are provided under the CC BY 4.0 license, which allows
for most commmercial, noncommercial, and academic uses. Our license requires an
acknowledgement in any products you produce which use this data.
The geoBoundaries team is primarily judged on it's citations: it is how our
users, funders and peers track our progress and impact. Recommendations for
how to cite us are provided here:

## Written Works

For written works that use geoBoundaries in analysis, we ask that you cite our
PLOS One Publication. We recommend either of the below (long or short form)
citations, but feel free to adapt to your own citation style.

- Short Form:

  Runfola, D. et al. (2020) geoBoundaries: A global database of political
  administrative boundaries. PLOS ONE 15(4): e0231866.
  <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866>

- Long Form:

  Runfola, Daniel, Community Contributors, and [v4.0: Lindsey Rogers, Joshua
  Habib, Sidonie Horn, Sean Murphy, Dorian Miller, Hadley Day, Lydia Troup,
  Dominic Fornatora, Natalie Spage, Kristina Pupkiewicz, Michael Roth, Carolina
  Rivera, Charlie Altman, Isabel Schruer, Tara McLaughlin, Russ Biddle, Renee
  Ritchey, Emily Topness, James Turner, Sam Updike, Helena Buckman, Neel Simpson,
  Jason Lin], [v2.0: Austin Anderson, Heather Baier, Matt Crittenden, Elizabeth
  Dowker, Sydney Fuhrig, Seth Goodman, Grace Grimsley, Rachel Layko, Graham
  Melville, Maddy Mulder, Rachel Oberman, Joshua Panganiban, Andrew Peck,
  Leigh Seitz, Sylvia Shea, Hannah Slevin, Rebecca Yougerman, Lauren Hobbs].
  "geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries."
  Plos one 15, no. 4 (2020): e0231866.

## Online Usage

When using geoBoundaries on the web, we ask that you put the name
"geoBoundaries" with a link back to this website, <www.geoboundaries.org>,
somewhere prominent on the page that uses the boundaries. This can be a
stand-alone link or within a sentence.

## Other

If you are using geoBoundaries in a product that is not written or a website
(i.e., an application or movie), we ask that you put the name "geoBoundaries"
somewhere prominent in the product, for example in the credits or as a link in
the help menu. The full URL should be used if the user cannot click the name -
for example, we prefer "www.geoboundaries.org", rather than "geoBoundaries" in
those cases. We would also love to hear about unusual ways geoBoundaries
is being used - if you have a moment, please shoot us an email and let us know
what you're up to (<team@geoboundaries.org>)! If you have any cases that are not
covered here, we recommend reading the Creative Commons best practices for
attribution guide
(<https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Recommended_practices_for_attribution>),
which covers an even wider range of cases.
