e-Resources Usage Guidelines
Srinivasa Ramanujan Library subscribes to a number of core e-resources (journals, databases, ebooks etc.) covering the content in full-text, bibliographic, statistical, video form. These resources are either subscribed directly or through national consortia or aggregators or through Institutional membership to support teaching, learning, research and other activities at the Institute.
Use of each resource being made available to IISER Pune community is governed by the license agreements and copyrights to which Library is signatory. The terms and conditions for using these resources are clearly spelled out in every license agreement that is signed with each publisher by the Library. These resources are meant to be used only by the authorised / registered users viz. institute administrators, faculty, researchers, students, staff and others directly associated and onsite visitors for the purpose of academic and research. Therefore, while accessing these resources, users are requested to adhere to the following guidelines.
Permitted
- Viewing, downloading, copying, printing and saving a copy of search results
- Viewing, downloading, copying, printing and saving individual articles
- Using e-resources for scholarly, educational or scientific research and teaching purposes
- Sharing a copy of an article to another authorized user (i.e. current faculty, students or staff)
- Posting the URL to the publisher's version of the article on a class website (publisher links will allow only authorized users access)
Not Permitted
- Use of robots or intelligent agents to do systematic, bulk or automatic downloading
- Systematic downloading or printing of entire journal issues or volumes, or large portions of other e-resources
- Using e-resources for commercial gain (i.e. reselling, redistributing or republishing licensed content)
- Transmitting, disseminating or otherwise making online content available to unauthorized users (i.e. sending to mailing lists or electronic bulletin boards)
- Posting the publisher's version or PDF of an article to an open class website
Policy when License Terms are violated
All Publishers regularly track the access to their subscribed electronic resources by our Institute. Misuse, if any, is notified to the Institute/ Librarian with details of kinds of violations. As subscriber and having signed license agreements with every publisher, Institute/ Library are expected to take immediate action. Many a times, publisher suspends the access to e-resource pending suitable action by the Institute/Library. The access may be stopped not only for journals where license agreement was violated, but for all journals by the same publisher. Moreover, the access is suspended not only for the individual violator but for the entire institution.
Policy with regard to violators
If any of our users violates the above mentioned electronic resources usage guidelines, they would risk having their library access suspended and access to the resource(s) blocked. Please note that on receipt of a complaint from the publisher, usually the Library & IT Services track down the user/ IP address committing such violations. Also, such incidents will be viewed seriously and when noticed it will be reported to relevant Institute authorities for appropriate action.