Springer License

SpringerLink Online Journals (Current NU only)

TERMS FOR SpringerLink:

Note:For the purpose of this Agreement: “Authorized Users” of Northeastern are defined as full and part time students and employees (including faculty, staff, affiliated researches and independent contractors), regardless of the physical location of such person. Northeastern may also provide access to, and permit copying from, the Licensed Materials by members of the public for their scholarly, research and personal use from workstations on Participating Library premises. Any form of remote access to the Licensed Materials by members of the public is not permitted.

Allowed uses:

Browse, search, retrieve, display, download, print, and store a reasonable number of individual articles or book chapters for scholarly research, educational and personal use as long as such use is not made for further distribution, publication, transfer or access by others and is otherwise consistent with §107 of the United States Copyright Act regarding fair use (17 USC § 108). Except with respect to compliance as to “Archival Rights,” as defined below, Licensee may not use, or authorize the use of, routines designed to conduct continuous and automatic searches and indexing of the service, such as web-crawling or spider programs.
Obtain remote access to the Licensed Materials through secure access procedures established by Northeastern University in accordance with standards of the industry.
Copying and storing is limited to single electronic copies of a reasonable number of individual articles, as required for specific research projects. .
Incidental and non-systematic sharing of printouts of Licensed Materials 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.
Make and transmit single electronic copies of individual items of content to research colleagues located outside the institution of the Participating Library, solely for the purpose of non-commercial, scholarly collaboration.
May use a reasonable portion of the Licensed Materials in the preparation of course packs or other educational materials, including print-outs, e-reserves and access-controlled websites, with all rights notices duly presented as set forth in this Agreement.

Restrictions on Use:

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 rights therein.
No copyright notices, trademark or proprietary notices, author attributions or other notices or disclaimers included by Springer, any member of the Springer Group or any other party in the Licensed Materials may be removed, obscured or modified in any way.
Except as expressly provided above, the posting of Licensed Materials on personal or institutional websites is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Springer.

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

Substantial or systematic reproduction, whether for commercial or non-profit use or for a fee or free of charge.
Except as expressly provided above, re-distribution, re-selling or sub-licensing in any manner, including in connection with fee-for-service use. .
Systematic supply or distribution of single or multiple copies in any form to anyone other than an Authorized User.
Except as expressly provided above, the distribution of any part of the Licensed Material on any electronic network, other than the Licensee’s secure network.
Springer’s explicit written permission must be obtained in order to use all or any part of the Licensed Materials in any manner not expressly permitted under this Agreement.

Revised 2/28/11