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Terms of use for e-resources: Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

LUT Academic Library

Description

The Essential Science Indicators™ database reveals emerging science trends as well as influential individuals, institutions, papers, journals and countries in your field of research.

With science trend statistics drawn from more than 12 million articles from over 12 000 global journals, ESI delivers the in-depth coverage you need to effectively analyze and benchmark research performance, identify significant trends, rank top performers, and evaluate potential employees and collaborators.

Owning organisation: LUT

LUT University

Authorised users

For each Client, the faculty, students, researchers, staff, outsourced faculty and/or staff in their performance of services for and on behalf of the Client only, and retired members of faculty and researchers (provided they are of Finnish retirement age and retain an affiliation with Client) of that Client and walk-in patrons of the Client.

Permitted use

 

For the purpose of education, teaching, distance learning, private study, retrieving information and research and for the purpose of research evaluation:

  • view the Databases and Data for the purpose of performing Searches;
  • print, electronically save, and distribute (in any form, including, but not limited to, printed, electronically relayed, posted to User-restricted list services or User-restricted bulletin boards, or magnetically stored) Search Results
  • distribute Data or the Search Results to third parties as incidental samples for illustrative or demonstration purposes and for the purposes of non-commercial scientific research and communication or to be used for the basis of discussion groups only; sharing in this manner with non-authorized users shall be incidental to such Permitted Purposes and not for re-transmission posting on personal or institutional websites;
  • incorporate parts of the Databases or Data or the Search results in printed or electronic course packs for the use of Users in the course of instruction; each such item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and author of extract, title and author of work, and publisher; course packs in non-electronic non-print perceptible form, such as audio or Braille, may also be offered to Users who, in the reasonable opinion of the Client, are visually impaired;
  • publicly displaying or publicly performing insubstantial parts of the Databases or Data as part of a presentation at a seminar, conference, or workshop, or other such similar activity. Examples of an “insubstantial parts” of a Database or Data include an amount of the Database or Data which: ( i) on its own has no independent commercial value as an independent product or work; (ii) could not be used by the recipient as a substitute for any database (or a substantial part of it) provided by Clarivate or its Affiliates

Prohibited use

Users may not

  • copy, duplicate, reproduce, translate into any language, or in any way reproduce any part of the Products;
  • distribute or transfer the Products, or any portion thereof, in any form (printed, electronically relayed, posted to public list services or bulletin boards, or magnetically stored), except in the manner described above
  • access the source code, data algorithms or other aspects of the Products that are not displayed to Users in their authorized use of the Products;
  • reverse engineer, de-compile, translate, modify, distribute, broadcast, disseminate or create derivative works from the Products or otherwise use the Products (or any portion or derivation thereof) in any product or service;
  • alter, obscure, remove, interfere with or add to any of the trade marks, trade names, markings or notices, including, but not limited to, copyright notices, affixed to or contained in the Products or any Updates included at the time such Updates are delivered to a Client;
  • publish or otherwise disseminate Search Results for Commercial use or sale

Remote access

While remote access is permitted for the faculty, students, researchers and staff of the Client, remote access to the Database by members of the public (walk-in patrons) is not permitted.

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