LexisNexis (tm) Academic

Description

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text online service which provides access to over 1 billion documents drawn from 12,500 publications, most of which are full text. Information is updated continuously. Areas covered include: Local, national and international news; company and industry information; law; accounting; TV and Radio transcripts; biography; reference; medicine and health.

Authorized Users

CIS shall provide access to and use of the SERVICE by enrolled students, active instructors, active faculty, and administrative staff, and, other SUBSCRIBER personnel designated by SUBSCRIBER and approved by CIS (collectively "Authorized Users"), in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Any person who does not possess an authorized and valid college or university identification is unauthorized. SUBSCRIBER will not actively promote the use of the SERVICE to unauthorized users. CIS will not consider immaterial amounts of access to the SERVICE by unauthorized users (walk-in traffic in the library) as a breach of the Agreement.

Allowed Use

CIS hereby grants to SUBSCRIBER and their Authorized Users, including remote users, a non-exclusive, nontransferable, limited license to access and use for research purposes the SERVICE. All research shall be directly connected to the educational activities of the SUBSCRIBER...This license includes: a) The right to electronically display Materials retrieved from the SERVICE to no more than one person at a time (no dissemination or redistribution via electronic bulletin boards, e-mail, intranets, the Internet or similar electronic medium), subject to the Supplemental Terms for Specific Materials. This does not limit the number of simultaneous users of Congressional and Statistical Universe. However, the Authorized User may display the results to multiple parties for purposes of classroom instruction; b) The right to download an insubstantial number of documents retrieved from the SERVICE and store them in machine-readable form, primarily for one person's exclusive use, to the extent such storage is not further limited or prohibited by the Supplemental Terms for Specific Materials; and c) The right to print

Prohibited Use

SUBSCRIBERS and their Authorized Users shall not create derivative products for resell...Except as specifically provided in the above Grant, Authorized Users are prohibited from downloading, storing, reproducing, transmitting, displaying, copying, distributing, or using Materials retrieved from the SERVICE...Authorized users may not use information included in the SERVICE to determine a consumer's eligibility for (a) credit or insurance for personal, family, or household purpose; (b) employment; (c) a government license or benefit.

Copyright Statement

To the extent permitted by applicable copyright law and not further limited or prohibited by the Supplemental Terms for Specific Materials, Authorized Users, may make copies of materials retrieved from the SERVICE and distribute such copies...Except as specifically provided herein, Authorized Users may not use the SERVICE or materials retrieved from the SERVICE in any fashion that infringes the copyrights or proprietary interests therein. Authorized Users may not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices in materials retrieved from the SERVICE. SUBSCRIBER and its Authorized Users of the SERVICE acknowledge that the copyright and title to the information content and organization are and remain with CIS. Any exceptions are identified in this Agreement. SUBSCRIBER agrees to communicate the substance of the following statement (which may be changed in whole or in part by CIS from time to time), in the agreed upon SUBSCRIBER AGREEMENT, as transmitted to its users periodically: "Copyright year, CIS, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this SERVICE may be used except for research purpose, and the SERVICE may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of CIS. "Congressional UNIVERSE" and "Statistical UNIVERSE" may not be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without the prior written authorization of CIS, except that limited reproduction of output is permitted solely for internal distribution within the user's organization in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and CIS Terms and Conditions."

Participating Campuses

MERLIN

Simultaneous Users

site

Date Start

07/01

Date End

06/30

Multi Year?

No