E-RESOURCES ACCESS PRIVELIGES

1. All electronic resources subscribed to and available through the University Library webpage are for academic use only and are governed by license agreements. It is the responsibility of individual users to ensure that e-resources are used for personal, educational, and research purposes only.
2. Systematic or programmatic downloading, preservation, and printing are prohibited. For example, you cannot download the entire issue of a journal or print out several copies of the same article.
3. Electronic distribution of content is also restricted, although the specific restrictions vary from publisher to publisher. It may be permissible to forward an article to another colleague in your own institution by email; however, transmitting an article to someone outside of the institution, or to a large group of recipients, a mailing list, or an electronic bulletin board, is not allowed.
4. You cannot post the PDF of an article on your website. The publishers' main concern is that people outside of your campus network should not be able to access resources licensed by your institution. However, a researcher can post a preprint of an article written by him/her.
5. As with any kind of scholarly communication, a researcher can use phrases or quotes from other articles and cite the source of information. However, a researcher is prohibited from using large chunks of information (paragraphs and chapters) from an article or from a chapter in a book.
6. Publishers track the use of their electronic resources in terms of the number of downloads made by subscribing institutions. Misuse, if any, is notified to the subscribing institution with details of kinds of violations, and the institution is expected to take action. The publisher also suspends access to e-resources pending suitable action by the subscribing institution. The access is stopped not only for journals where the license agreement was violated but for all journals by the same publisher. Moreover, access is suspended not only for the individual violator but for the entire institution.
7. It is the responsibility of individual users to ensure that the use of electronic resources does not breach the terms and conditions specified in the license agreements. Licenses vary from publisher to publisher; however, the general principles are as follows:

   Permitted

   Not Permitted

   Viewing, downloading, copying, printing, and saving a copy of search results. Viewing, downloading, copying, printing, and saving individual articles. Using e-resources for scholarly, educational, or scientific research, teaching, private study, and clinical purposes. Sending a copy of an article to another authorised user (i.e., current faculty, students, or staff). Posting the URL to the publisher's version of the article on a class website (publisher links will allow only authorised users access)

   Use of robots or intelligent agents to do systematic, bulk or automatic downloading is not permitted. Systematic downloading or printing of entire journal issues or volumes, or large portions of other e-resources is not permitted. Using e-resources for commercial gain is not permitted (i.e. reselling, redistributing or republishing licensed content). Transmitting, disseminating or otherwise making online content available to unauthorised users (i.e. sending to mailing lists or electronic bulletin boards) is not permitted. Posting the publisher's version or PDF of an article to an open class website is not permitted (instead, post the URL to the article which will allow only authorized users access).