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Copyright
law exists to protect the intellectual standing and the economic rights
of creators and publishers of all literary, dramatic, artistic, musical,
audio-visual and electronic works. Electronic materials are copyrighted
in the same manner as print materials.
Agreements
and licence
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All electronic resources
will be subject to some licence or access agreement
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Each resource or
package will have a specific agreement
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Specific contractual
agreements should be available from each supplier/publisher
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Copyright and terms
of use are often included online
Web
links on copyright laws
- Types
of license agreement
- Institutional license
- Restricted or unrestricted number of
users
- Restricted number of institutional licenses
- Countrywide access
- Access will be available for each institution
through static IP.
Prohibited
activities
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Downloading and copying
entire issues or volumes of any journal;
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Commercial use of
journal content, including but not limited to, providing a fee-for-copying
service;
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Altering, obscuring
or removing copyright and other proprietary notices which appear
as part of the journal service or appear alongside journal content.
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Downloading
full text articles and emailing them to friends outside the
institution
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People from
commercial companies using library facilities to access resources
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Printing out
entire electronic journals and making copies
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Including
large parts of articles in student workbook material
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