Can my articles be used to provide search or other services by companies such as Google or disciplinary repositories?
Yes, consistent with the goals of open access and ensuring wide visibility and availability of scholarly articles, the license allows Duke to enable both commercial and nonprofit entities to use the articles to provide search or other services, so long as the articles are not being sold. For instance, the license allows Duke to enable the articles to be harvested and indexed by search services, such as Google Scholar, so that they can more readily be found, and to be used to provide other value-added services that don’t involve charging for access to the articles themselves. Duke also could authorize use of the articles in a commercial service that provides information extracted from the articles (but not the full text itself), such as bibliographic data or citation lists.
