Use of electronic resources subscribed by the Library is governed by license agreements negotiated between the Library and publishers/vendors. These license agreements are legal binding contracts that allow staff, students and other authorised users to access the resources for noncommercial, educational, scholarly and research purposes.
In general, the license agreements prohibit:
- large-scale or systematic downloading of single or multiple copies of abstracts, tables of contents or fulltext documents in print or electronic copies
- utilisation of software programmes or routines designed to continuously and automatically search and index the resources, such as spiders, web-crawlers and robots
- alter, amend, modify, abridge, translate or change in any manner the licensed materials
- sales and exploitation of licensed materials for any commercial purposes
- publication, distribution, mount on any electronic network, or retaining portions of licensed materials or combining them with any other material
Please refer to individual license agreement provided by publishers'/vendors' websites for full description on the conditions of use.
