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Current Adler University students, faculty, and staff on all campuses may use Adler University Library electronic resources. Registered alumni and other approved walk-in users (including I-Share patrons) may access online materials from any of the Libraries' publicly available workstations during Library hours.
Databases and other online resources are acquired through annual subscriptions, purchase agreements, and/or site licenses.
Use of licensed electronic resources is governed by both US copyright law and our contractual agreements (e.g., purchase agreements, site licenses) with publishers and/or database vendors. All users, whether remote or in person, must be in compliance with both legal and contractual usage restrictions. The Libraries reserve the right to revoke online access to any patron discovered to be in knowing violation of US copyright law or contractual terms.
Publishers and database vendors may monitor our usage to ensure that license agreements are upheld. Violation of contractual terms may lead a publisher/database vendor to discontinue our access to their content with little or no warning. Some guidelines for remaining in compliance are given below, and Library staff are always happy to talk with patrons who have questions about specific copyright issues or situations.
All users must limit use of electronic resources to non-commercial, educational, or personal research purposes. In addition, the following rules of thumb for compliance should be kept in mind:
| You may: | You may not: |
|---|---|
| Print, download, or quote limited amounts of information, with proper citation) | Engage in systematic downloading of database content (i.e., downloading all articles in an e-journal issue or all chapters in an e-book; downloading substantial amounts from a database to create another collection of data) |
| Email an article to yourself or another current Adler faculty member or student | Email an article to someone outside the current Adler community (unless this practice is specifically allowed by a publisher’s license. Ask the Electronic Resources Librarian about which publishers might allow this) |
| Create a persistent link to an electronic article or ebook chapter | Post PDF copies of articles or eBook chapters to websites or servers (this includes LMS) |