RESEARCHERID WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

All use of this ResearcherID website (the "Website") is subject to these terms and conditions of use ("Terms of Use"). If you, the end user ("You" or "Your") use any of the web pages within the Website, we, Thomson Scientific Inc., a Thomson Scientific business ("Thomson Scientific" or "We" or "Our") shall treat such use as constituting Your agreement to abide by these Terms of Use. We may amend these Terms of Use at any time by posting the amended terms and condition on this Website.

Ownership

This Website contains proprietary technology and copyrighted material owned by Thomson Scientific and/or its third party licensors. All use of this Website and the information and materials accessible in it ("Licensed Materials") are restricted and subject to Thomson Scientific's prior written consent. 'Thomson', the Thomson starburst logo, and 'ResearcherID', are trademarks or service marks of The Thomson Corporation or its affiliated companies. All other product and service names cited are trademarks of their respective companies.

Your Rights of Use

We grant You a limited license to make personal use of this Website and the materials contained in it subject to these Terms of Use. You are entitled to access and search the Licensed Materials and to include insubstantial portions of the Licensed Materials as incidental samples or for illustrative or demonstration purposes, including in reports prepared for Your personal or internal business purposes, provided that You include the following acknowledgement: "This material is reproduced under a license from Thomson Scientific. You may not copy or redistribute this material in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Thomson Scientific."

Restrictions on Use

Except as described in these Terms of Use, You may not use, copy, adapt, translate, modify, sell, distribute or otherwise create derivative databases, services or works of or based on the Website or the content within the Website. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any of the software or technology contained in the Website, except to the extent expressly permitted by law, where such rights cannot be modified by agreement.

You may not: (i) frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any portion of this Website or any trademark, logo or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout and form) of Thomson Scientific and/or its third party licensors; or (ii) use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing the 'Thomson' name or any other marks of the Thomson Corporation, without the express written consent of Thomson Scientific.

You will not use the Website or any of the information set out in the Website for any illegal or injurious purpose or to publish, post, distribute, receive or disseminate defamatory, infringing, confidential, obscene, or other unlawful material or to threaten, harass, stalk, spam, abuse, or otherwise violate the legal rights (including without limitation rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

The Website and any accompanying documentation are subject to the applicable export control laws and regulations of the USA. You agree not to export or re-export the Website or any of the materials contained in the Website, directly or indirectly, to any countries that are subject to the export control restrictions of the USA.

Any unauthorized use of this Website shall terminate Your license granted by Thomson Scientific.

Unlawful Conduct

Use of the Website or other Thomson Scientific services for any purpose that is unlawful, or in any manner that could exceed Your authorized access or otherwise damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation of the Website or other Thomson Scientific services, or any other person's use or enjoyment of the Website or those other services, is strictly prohibited. Such prohibited actions include but are not limited to: violating or attempting to violate security measures, accessing data that is not intended for Your use, logging into a server or account which You are not authorized to access, attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting, or taking any action in order to obtain services to which You are not entitled.

Unlawful conduct may result in civil or criminal liability. Thomson Scientific will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and co-operate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

Processing of Your Personally identifiable Information

While You use the Website, You may be asked to submit personally identifiable information about Yourself. We may monitor and record e-mails and telephone calls that you may to Thomson Scientific. We do this for training purposes and to make sure the problems and issues You bring to Our attention are resolved promptly and correctly. You acknowledge that Your use of the Website may also be monitored to ensure compliance with these Terms of Use and to ensure the security and availability of the Website.

We are committed to working with You to resolve, quickly and fairly any complaints You may have about Our processing of Your personally identifiable information. For further information about Thomson Scientific's privacy policies, please refer to Our Privacy Policy . If You have any questions or comments, please contact Our Data Privacy Team .

DISCLAIMER

Thomson Scientific and its third party suppliers make no warranty or representation as to the accuracy, completeness or correctness of any materials contained within the Website or as to whether the provision of the Website will be uninterrupted or error free or that all errors in the Website or the materials contained within the Website will be corrected. In particular, Thomson Scientific and its Third Party Suppliers will not be liable for (i) any corruption, alteration, damage, loss or mistransmission (as applicable) of Your or any third party's data, software, hardware or systems; and (ii) loss or damage resulting from the inadequacy of security of data during transmission via public electronic communications networks or facilities.

the Website may contain links to Internet sites operated by third parties (other than Thomson Scientific). Where such links exist they are provided for Your convenience only. Thomson Scientific does not control such Internet sites, and is not responsible for their contents. Thomson Scientific's inclusion of links to such Internet sites in the Website does not imply any endorsement of the material on such Internet sites or any association with their operators and Thomson Scientific makes no warranties in respect of such Internet sites.

Thomson Scientific is an information provider and does not provide legal, financial or other professional advice. The materials contained in the Website are for general information purposes only, are not intended to constitute legal or other professional advice, and should not be relied on or treated as a substitute for specific advice relevant to particular circumstances. Neither Thomson Scientific nor any of its affiliates or third party suppliers shall be liable for any loss that may arise from any reliance by you, your employer or client, or any other third party, on the materials contained in the Website.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL We, Our Affiliates or third party Suppliers BE LIABLE TO You FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF We, Our Affiliates or third party suppliers HAve BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF Thomson Scientific, Its Affiliates And Third Party Suppliers arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use or the provision of the Website SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE FEE PAID BY You FOR THE LICENSE GRANTED HEREUNDER, WHICH IS ZERO DOLLARS ($0).

General

These Trial Terms and Conditions represent the entire agreement between You and Thomson Scientific for the provision of access to the Website. All other statements, representations, warranties or undertakings are hereby excluded except in relation to statements made fraudulently. These Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of the State of the Commonwealth Pennsylvania, USA and You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and start courts of the State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA in relation to any claim or dispute which may arise out of or in connection with Your use of the Website.