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Terms of use for e-resources: Springer Nature & Palgrave eJournals

LUT Academic Library

Description

A multi discipline scientific journals collection.

Owning organisation: LUT

LUT University

Authorised users

Authorized Users: faculty and other staff members (also retired), students.

Walk-in-Users: members of the public who are permitted to access the Licensed Material within the Licensee’s physical premises.

Permitted use

Use of the Licensed Material is permitted for educational purposes: for the purpose of education, teaching, distance learning, private study and/or research.

Authorized and Walk-in-Users may

  • Access, browse, view, collate, display, search and retrieve the Content,
  • Download, copy paste, save and store on electronic media, print and photocopy single articles, chapters or other individual items of the Content,
  • Distribute single articles, chapters or other individual items of the Content in print or electronic form to other Authorized Users.
  • Distribute single copies of single articles, chapters or other individual items in the Content in print or electronic form including email to third parties outside the Licensee for the purposes of scientific research and communication or to be used for the basis of discussion groups. This sharing must be incidental, non-systematic and not for commercial use.
  • Publicly display or publicly perform single articles book chapters or portions thereof or other individual items of the Content as part of a presentation at onsite and/or online seminar, conference, or workshop and academic meetings. Parts of the Content may be licensed under open access license Terms (“Open Access Content”) and in such cases those license terms govern the use.

Prohibited use

Neither Licensee nor Authorized Users shall:

  • Remove, obscure or alter any copyright or other notices, trademarks, logos, service marks or any other proprietary rights appearing in or on the Content except as otherwise permitted in these user terms.
  • Update, change, revise, adapt, modify, translate, transform or create any derivative work of the Content except to the extent necessary to make it perceptible on a screen excluding any changes to the substance of the Content or as otherwise permitted in these user terms
  • Except as permitted in these user terms or by applicable law, redistribute, reproduce, or transmit the Content by any means including electronic (e. g., via e-mail, FTP) nor post it on personal or public websites or on public networks,
  • Systematically download any Content to its own or any third-party server, use routines designed to continuously and automatically search and index the Content (including its full text and metadata), such as web-crawling or spider programs, or engage in any activity likely to burden the Platforms (for avoidance of doubt one request per second is not deemed likely to burden the Platforms. One request means the usage of one of Licensor’s API’s per second (application programming interface) or one fetch of a page URL per second)) except as otherwise permitted in these user terms,
  • Directly or indirectly use or assist any third party to use the Content for any Commercial Use; or
  • Otherwise use the Content in a manner that would infringe the copyright or other proprietary rights contained therein.
  • Use any part of the Content to train, directly or indirectly, any AI tool or system

Remote access

Remote access is permitted for Authorized Users via the Licensee institution's secure network.

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