Licence

Last updated: July 29, 2026

Source texts

The primary texts hosted on Scholia fall into two categories.

Texts digitized by Scholia. Where we have transcribed, structured, and edited a primary text ourselves — drawn from editions in the public domain or released under a public-domain dedication — that editorial work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. The underlying public-domain text remains free for anyone to use; the licence covers our digitization and editorial presentation of it.

Texts served from third parties. Some texts are drawn directly from external sources and APIs that we do not control. These retain their original licence and terms, which govern your use of them and are noted on the relevant work's page. Scholia makes no licensing claim over this material.

Translations and modernized editions

Original translations produced for Scholia, and the modernized reading editions we prepare from historical texts, are original works and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. You are free to share them for non-commercial purposes, provided you give appropriate credit. You may not distribute modified or derivative versions.

Translations sourced from third parties retain their original licence terms, which are noted on the relevant work's page.

Commentary and resources

Scholarly commentary, resource links, and annotations contributed by editors are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 unless otherwise noted.

User content

Articles that contain original writing — analysis, commentary, argument — beyond the quoted material are the intellectual property of their author, who retains full copyright.

By publishing such an article on Scholia, you grant the platform a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and excerpt it for the purpose of operating and promoting the service. You may archive or remove your published work at any time, subject to the platform's terms of service.

Published articles are also made available to readers under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Readers may share an article for non-commercial purposes with appropriate credit to the author, but may not distribute modified or derivative versions. Quoted source material within an article remains under the licence of its own source text.

Collections that consist primarily of quotations with minimal original contribution do not constitute original authorship and are not independently copyrightable. Private notes and saved quotations are personal data and are not published or licenced to anyone.

Software

The Scholia platform software is proprietary. The licence terms above apply to the textual content hosted on the site, not to the underlying code.

Questions

For licensing inquiries, contact contact@scholia.study.