Nature Publishing Group

Terms for Nature Publishing Group journals

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The Licensor (Nature America) will:

  • make the Licensed Material accessible via the Network to the Authorized Users for their research, teaching, and private study purposes
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  • permit Northeastern University Libraries to make interlibrary loans of the licensed material by way of hard copy print form (but not electronically) to individual libraries of not for profit, non commercial organisations in accordance with fair use guidelines.
  • permit users to create a hypertext link to any part of the Licensed material provided that no person other than an Authorised User may use such hypertext link.

Users shall not:

  • sell, distribute, license, rent or otherwise exploit the Licensed Material, or any element of it, for any commercial purpose
  • make the Licensed Material, or any element of it, available by any means to persons other than Authorized Users
  • make the Licensed Material, or any element of it, available on, or by, electronic bulletin boards, news groups, Web sites, FTP or any other means of posting or transmitting material on the Internet, an on-line service or wide area network
  • remove or obscure the Licensor's copyright notice from the Licensed Material including hard-copy print-outs
  • use the Licensed Material to create any derivative work, product or service, or merge the Licensed Material with any other product, database, or service for commercial purposes.
  • alter, amend, modify, translate, or change the Licensed Material
  • Undertake any activity that may have a damaging effect on the Licensor's ability to achieve revenue through selling and marketing the Licensed Material
  • otherwise use the Licensed Material supplied in accordance with this Agreement in a manner that would infringe the copyright or other proprietary rights contained within it
  • make the Licensed Material or any part of it available by remote access to any person other than Authorised Users
  • make mass, automated or systematic extractions from or hard copy storage of the Licensed Material

Updated 11/20/07