Terms & Conditions
The following terms and conditions apply to USC's Ask-A-Librarian services. At our discretion, we may refuse to answer any question. In using our E-mail and chat services, users agree to send only questions that meet ordinary standards of decency and legality.
Ownership of Materials
E-mail questions sent to us are in the public domain. This means that anyone, including the library, can freely reproduce, copy, modify or otherwise use an E-mail question without permission. For example, questions asked and answered will be saved and will be accessible in our local Knowledge Base within the QuestionPoint database. As part of its public service mission, the University Libraries provide and use information for non-commercial, educational or research use only.
Excerpts of materials provided in answer to E-mail questions may be subject to copyright restrictions. It is the responsibility of the user to determine the existence of such rights and to obtain any permissions, and to pay any associated fees, which may be necessary for any proposed use. The library may also provide links to non-USC Web sites and is not responsible for that content, for changes in content of the sources to which the library pages link, or for the content of sources accessed through secondary links.
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