ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

  

Description

An access only model and starts from the date of the existing ScienceDirect subscription, with a minimum of four backfile years plus the current year building. Access is cumulative as long as license and subscription to the Freedom Collection is renewed.

Authorized Users

Authorized Users/Sites. Authorized Users for purposes of this Agreement are: Full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff, researchers, and independent contractors of the Subscriber affiliated with the Subscriber’s locations...[4 UM campuses]...and individuals using computer terminals within the library facilities at the Sites permitted by the Subscriber to access the Licensed Products through the Subscriber’s secure network.

Allowed Use

Authorized Uses. The Subscriber and its Authorized Users may: 1.3.1 access, search, browse and view the Licensed Products; 1.3.2 print and download a reasonable portion of articles, abstracts, records or parts of chapters from the Licensed Products (”Excerpts”); 1.3.3 incorporate links to Excerpts on the Subscriber’s intranet and internet websites, provided that the appearance of such links and/or statements accompanying such links shall be changed as reasonably requested by Licensor; 1.3.4 access, search, browse, view, print and download articles from all journals which are accessible on the ScienceDirect online service but are not subscribed to as part of the Licensed Products, with each twenty-four (24) hour access period for a selected article, a “Transaction”; and 1.3.5 Incorporate links to Excerpts in electronic coursepacks, reserves and course management systems for use in connection with courses offered by the Subscriber for academic credit, provided that the Subscriber obtains the prior written consent of the Licensor for use in connection with any non-credit courses. The Authorized Users may: 1.3.6 transmit Excerpts to other Authorized Users and to third-party colleagues for their scholarly or research use.

Prohibited Use

1.4 Restrictions on Use of Licensed Products. Except as may be expressly permitted in this Agreement, the Subscriber and its Authorized Users may not: 1.4.1 abridge, modify, translate or create any derivative work based on the Licensed Products without the prior written permission of the Licensor, except to the extent necessary to make them perceptible on a computer screen to Authorized Users; 1.4.2 remove, obscure or modify in any way any copyright notices, other notices or disclaimers as they appear in the Licensed Products; or 1.4.3 substantially or systematically reproduce, retain or redistribute the Licensed Products.

Electronic Reserves License

1.3.5 Incorporate links to Excerpts in electronic coursepacks, reserves and course management systems for use in connection with courses offered by the Subscriber for academic credit, provided that the Subscriber obtains the prior written consent of the Licensor for use in connection with any non-credit courses.

InterLibrary Loan License

The Subscriber may: 1.3.7 print and deliver Excerpts to fulfill requests as part of the practice commonly known as “Interlibrary loan” from non-commercial libraries located within the same country as the Subscriber.

Proxy Server License

Authorized Users/Sites. Authorized Users for purposes of this Agreement are: Full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff, researchers, and independent contractors of the Subscriber affiliated with the Subscriber’s locations...[4 UM campuses]...and individuals using computer terminals within the library facilities at the Sites permitted by the Subscriber to access the Licensed Products through the Subscriber’s secure network.

Remote Use License

Authorized Users/Sites. Authorized Users for purposes of this Agreement are: Full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff, researchers, and independent contractors of the Subscriber affiliated with the Subscriber’s locations...[4 UM campuses]...and individuals using computer terminals within the library facilities at the Sites permitted by the Subscriber to access the Licensed Products through the Subscriber’s secure network.

Walk-ins License

Authorized Users/Sites. Authorized Users for purposes of this Agreement are: Full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff, researchers, and independent contractors of the Subscriber affiliated with the Subscriber’s locations...[4 UM campuses]...and individuals using computer terminals within the library facilities at the Sites permitted by the Subscriber to access the Licensed Products through the Subscriber’s secure network.

Participating Campuses

MERLIN

Simultaneous Users

unlimited

Date Start

01/01

Date End

12/31