Access, use, and Reproduction by Libraries of electronic journals, databases, and
other resources made available through the Clifton M. Miller Library are governed
by contracts or license agreements between the College and publishers or third parties.
In many cases, license agreements impose greater restrictions on use than does copyright
law, and these terms may limit uses of non-copyrighted material. Members of the Washington
College community are expected to make reasonable and good faith efforts to comply
with the terms of these agreements.
Licensed content and software is limited to current students, faculty, and staff of
the College. In using licensed electronic resources, all users must:
limit uses to non-commercial, educational, or personal research purposes;
safeguard institutional access to resources by not sharing your network user name
and password.
In general, users may:
print, download or quote limited amounts of information, with proper attribution;
copy an article for your personal use in teaching or research;
create a link to a journal article on a publisher or aggregator Web site.
Users may not:
systematically download large amounts of information (e.g. download all articles in
a journal issue; engage in large-scale downloading from licensed resources to create
large databases);
post a copy of a published article to another computer (e.g., a Blackboard site, a
departmental Web site, or an association or commercial Web site);
distribute copies of material to individuals or groups outside Washington College,
unless the license for the resource specifically allows it;
sell or distribute articles to individuals, institutions, or organizations for commercial
purposes.
Users should be aware that publishers monitor use levels of electronic resources to
verify compliance with licensing agreements. Breach of license by a single user may
enable the publisher to suspend the College’s access without warning.
