Terms of use for e-resources: SAGE Catalyst

Sage Catalyst provides unlimited, university-wide access to 600+ core textbooks with wide curriculum coverage available via VitalSource.

Authorized Users designated by Customer to access the Product shall be individuals who are authorized by the Customer to access the Customer’s information services whether on-site or off-site via Secure Authentication, including via institutional proxy server, and who are affiliated to the Customer as a current student (undergraduates and postgraduates), teaching, research, or clinical faculty, member of staff (whether on a permanent or temporary basis), alumni, or contractor of the Customer.

Authorized Users are licensed to access eBooks subject to the terms and conditions herein and to use
the eBooks in the following manner:

• Read the eBook online.
• Download a single chapter per eBook, per Authorized User, per semester (4 months) for personal use only.
• Print the eBook for Authorized User’s personal use only, reasonable use of up to 10% of a title. Downloaded chapters may also be printed. Exact limitations imposed by the platform may be adjusted after 30 days’ notice.
• Extract or use information contained in the eBooks for Educational Purposes only, including, but not limited to, text and data mining, extraction and manipulation of information for the purposes of illustration, explanation, example, comment, criticism, teaching, research, or analysis.

The Authorized Users shall not:

• Remove, obscure or modify copyright notices, text acknowledging, attributions or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear.
• Alter, adapt or modify the eBooks, except to the extent necessary to make it perceptible on a computer screen, or as otherwise permitted in this Agreement. Alteration of words or their order is strictly prohibited.
• Use all or any part of the eBooks for any Commercial Use or for any purpose other than Educational Purposes. No Commercial Use of the eBooks shall be permitted unless an Authorized User has been granted prior written consent by Publisher.
• Reproduce, forward, modify, create derivative works based upon, transmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish or sublicense the Publisher Content or in any way commingle the Publisher Content with other third-party content, without Publisher’s prior written consent. End-User log-in information and password may be used solely by End-User and End-User may not share with or sell to a third party such log-in information and/or passwords to access the Publisher Content.
• Display or distribute any part of the eBooks on any electronic network, including, without limitation, the Internet and, and any other distribution medium now in existence or hereinafter created, other than by a secure authentication approved in writing by Publisher; and/or print and distribute any portion(s) of the eBooks to persons or entities other than the Customer or Authorized Users.
• The Publisher content is provided on an “as is” basis. Neither Publisher nor its licensors make any guarantees or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use as to any Publisher content or the information therein or any warranties as to the accuracy, completeness, currentness, or results to be obtained from, accessing or using the Publisher content, or any material referenced in such content or any information entered into distributor’s product by end-users or other persons and/or any material available on or that can be accessed through the distributor’s product (including via any hyperlink or otherwise) or as to non-infringement of third party rights. Any warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, are disclaimed. Any material or data obtained through use of the publisher content is at your own discretion and risk and end-user understands that it will be solely responsible for any resulting damage to its computer system or loss of data.
• In no event will Publisher or its licensors, be liable for any indirect, special or consequential damages, including but not limited to, lost time, lost money, lost profits or good will, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not such damages are foreseen or unforeseen with respect to any use of the Publisher content.

Authorized users are allowed remote access to the material via a secure network.

SAGE Catalyst Accessibility Statement (PDF)

User Terms required by the Platform Vendor governing use of the Platform.