Springer License

SpringerLink Online Journals (Current NU only)

TERMS FOR SpringerLink:

Note: Authorized Users of this product are defined as: faculty members (including temporary or exchange faculty for the duration of their assignment); currently registered students and staff members, including independent contractors for the duration of their engagement by the University.

Allowed uses:.

Users may browse, search, retrieve, display, download, print, and store individual articles or book chapters for scholarly research, educational and personal use as long as such use is consistent with the Fair Use provisions of United States and international copyright laws.

Subscriber may not use routines designed to continuously and automatically search and index the service, such as web-crawling or spider programs.

Incidental and non-systematic sharing by Authorized Users with non-authorized individuals of limited amounts of Licensed Material for collaborative research and scholarly purposes, and not for re-transmission, is permitted.

Copying and storing is limited to single copies of a reasonable number of individual articles. Copying and storing of entire issues by Authorized Users is not permitted.

Authorized Users may obtain remote access to the Licensed Materials through secure access procedures established by the Licensee.

Authorized Users may send single articles to research colleagues outside the institution of the Participating Library for the purpose of non commercial scholarly communication.

Licensee and their Authorized Users may use a reasonable portion of the Licensed Materials in the preparation of course packs or other educational materials, including e-reserves and access-controlled websites.

Restrictions on Use:

Authorized Users may not modify, adapt, transform, translate or create any derivative work in any medium based on or including any materials in the Licensed Materials, or otherwise use any such materials in a manner that would infringe the copyright or other proprietary rights therein.

No copyright notices, trademark or proprietary notices, author attributions or other notices or disclaimers included by Springer or any member of the Springer Group in the Licensed Materials may be removed, obscured or modified in any way.

Posting complete articles, chapters, issues, or books on personal or institutional websites is not allowed. (See allowed uses for what is permitted.)

The Licensed Materials may not, directly or indirectly, be used for any of the following purposes:

Substantial or systematic reproduction of the content may not be made whether for commercial or non-profit use or for a fee or free of charge.

Re-distribution, re-selling or sub-licensing of the content in any manner including in connection with fee-for-service is not allowed.

Systematic supply or distribution of single or multiple copies in any form to anyone other than an Authorized User is not permitted.

Distribution of any part of the Licensed Material on any electronic network, other than the Licensee’s secure network, is not permitted

Springer’s explicit written permission must be obtained in order to use all or any part of the Licensed Materials for the purpose of monetary reward (whether by Licensee or any Authorized User) by means of sale, transfer or other form of exploitation of the Licensed Materials.

Bulk reproduction or distribution of electronic or print copies of Licensed Materials for sales/promotional purposes is specifically prohibited.