Licensed Electronic Resources
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library collects electronic resources (e.g., eJournals, eBooks, or abstracting/indexing databases) to support the instructional, research and service activities of MSK employees and students. These resources are purchased or leased by the Library either directly or through consortia and are governed by license and contract agreements. Each license or contract, whether purchased individually or as a group, contains strict guidelines on the use of the resource.
Copyright
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center does not permit the illegal downloading and/or sharing of copyrighted material in any form or manner. Electronic resources are copyrighted and are subject to all applicable copyright and database protection rights under the laws of the United States and other countries. All utilizations of these products including downloading, printing or creating copies of content from these resources must be consistent with existing "fair use" law as defined by the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) or international law.
License Agreements and Contracts
Each electronic resource subscribed to or purchased includes a license agreement or contract that details permissions and restrictions on use. Common restrictions include, but are not limited to:
- Materials may be used for scholarly, educational and/or scientific research purposes; any selling, distributing, licensing, or renting of materials for commercial uses is prohibited.
- Materials may be used by authorized users only. Authorized users include Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers, clinicians, nurses, health care professionals and students.
- Authorized users may download, store on a PC (or other storage device), or print single copies of documents from the resource for their own non-commercial use, provided user maintains all copyright and other notices contained in such material.
- Systematic and/or substantial downloading or reproduction of materials is prohibited. Only a reasonable number of records, articles or chapters may be downloaded for personal use. Use of Web crawlers, robots, or any other software packages or systematic searching tools or programs is forbidden.
- Any proprietary and/or copyright notices, author attribution or disclaimers on the materials may not be deleted or modified.
Access Privileges
Individuals who do not comply with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library’s electronic resource licensing agreements/contracts will have their library access suspended. Inappropriate use of materials may result in blocked access to resources for all Library users.
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