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License to Use the VMF
The use of the VMF is subject to a licence from the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) which governs any current or future use of the VMF. The full licence may be viewed and downloaded here.
By downloading, importing, copying, abstracting from, modifying, circulating or implementing the VMF, you enter into a licence with HEFCE on behalf of JISC to use the VMF in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the licence, as modified from time to time and published on this website.
No registration is required to use the VMF, and use within the terms and conditions set out in the licence is without charge.
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Information provided from external vocabularies has not been approved by the owners of such vocabularies. Its inclusion in the VMF matrix is for illustrative and testing purposes only, and does not constitute approval, recommendation, or guarantee of accuracy, currency or completeness.