Electronic Resource Use Guidelines
Unlike books, most electronic resources (MD Consult, UpToDate,
Cochrane, e-journals, etc.) are licensed rather than owned by Preston
Medical Library. The producers of electronic resources put restrictions
on their use. In general, those restrictions include:
Who can use the resource:
•Authorized users include staff,
faculty and students of the UT Graduate School of Medicine (UTGSM),
UT Medical Center (UTMC) staff.
•Other visitors to the library may use the resources while
present in the library.
Where the resource may be used:
•Most resources can be readily accessed within any building
on the UT Medical Center campus.
•Off-campus/remote use is available for many, but not all,
electronic resources.
•Off-campus access to most electronic resources is available
to authorized users by logging into the library's proxy server.
Registration is
required for off-campus access.
• Off-campus access is not available to those who are not authorized users,
including those with subscriber cards.
How the resource may be used:
•Use is limited to educational, scholarly, and research
purposes.
•Prohibited activities include commercial use, excessive
or systematic downloading or copying (for example, copying/downloading/printing
every article from an issue of a journal), electronic redistribution
of content to an e-mail list, forwarding copies to unauthorized
users.
•In accordance with the "fair use" provisions
of the Copyright
Statute, authorized users may make single copies of articles,
print or electronic.
•Depending on the resource, additional restrictions may
apply.
Misuse of a resource or violation of a license agreement may
result in the termination of access to the electronic resource
for the all of the Preston Medical Library’s authorized
users.
If you have questions about license agreements for specific
resources, please contact Sandy
Oelschlegel.
Depending on the resource, additional restrictions may apply.
Updated
September 25, 2007
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