Electronic Resources Acceptable Use Policy

By accessing this resource, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to abide by the specific use guidelines and restrictions as listed on this page.

Subscribed Products

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Authorized Users/Sites

Authorized Users are the full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff and researchers of the Subscriber and individuals who are independent contractors or are employed by independent contractors of the Subscriber affiliated with the Subscriber’s locations listed on Schedule 2 (the “Sites”) and individuals using computer terminals within the library facilities at the Sites permitted by the Subscriber to access the Subscribed Products for purposes of personal research, education or other non-corporate use (“Walk-in Users”).

Each Authorized User may:

• access, search, browse and view the Subscribed Products;
• print, download and store a reasonable portion of individual items from the Subscribed Products for the exclusive use of such Authorized User; and
• incorporate links to the Subscribed Products on the Subscriber’s intranet and internet websites and in electronic coursepacks, reserves and course management systems and instructor websites, provided that the appearance of such links and/or statements accompanying such links will be changed as reasonably requested by Elsevier.

Authorized Users may not:

• abridge, modify, translate, or create any derivative work and/or service (including resulting from the use of artificial intelligence tools), based on the Subscribed Products, except to the extent necessary to make them perceptible on a computer screen to Authorized Users
• remove, obscure, or modify in any way any copyright notices, other notices, or disclaimers as they appear in the Subscribed Products;
• use any robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated downloading programs, tools, or devices to search, scrape, extract, deep link, index and/or disrupt the working of the Subscribed Products;

• use the Subscribed Products in combination with an artificial intelligence tool (including to train an algorithm, test, process, analyze, generate output, and/or develop any form of artificial intelligence tool);

• post abstracts from the Subscribed Products on social networking sites; or

• substantially or systematically reproduce, retain, store locally, redistribute or disseminate the Subscribed Products.

Authorized Users who are individuals who are independent contractors or are employed by independent contractors may use the Subscribed Products only for the purposes of the contracted research work for the Subscriber.