Copying from eLibrary Resources

At the University of Birmingham, all the electronic journals and books that you access through the eLibrary service are covered by Licences.

The Licences themselves and the associated Terms and Conditions tell you what you can and cannot do with the journal articles or books that you locate through this method.

Please read them before you start to copy the original material!

In general they allow you to read what you want BUT permit you to copy, download and save only limited amounts, and sometimes for limited periods of time.

For example, finding and copying one article from one issue of an eJournal will normally be covered in the licence, but if you go through four or five issues of the Journal and copy every article one after the other (or, worse still, use a computer program to do it), then the rights holder will probably regard that as ‘multiple and systematic downloading’ which most licences forbid, and hence will block access to all their journals for the whole University!

For information on the Conditions of Use and Copyright in respect of the eLibrary, see:

http://elibrary.bham.ac.uk/copyright.asp

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