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Responsible Use of Electronic Resources

The Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library negotiates and maintains contracts with a large number of publishers and vendors to provide access to thousands of electronic resources (databases, electronic journals, abstracts, etc.) in support of the University's teaching and research mission. Licenses with these publishers and vendors specify the permissions and restrictions governing their use. Each user is responsible for complying with the terms and conditions of these licenses. Failure to do so can result in either temporary or possibly permanent loss of access to a resource for the entire University community.

Authorized Users

On campus access to licensed electronic resources is restricted to students, faculty, staff and other authorized users including walk-in users. Off campus access to licensed resources is limited to current UNO students, staff, faculty and other authorized users registered with the Criss Library.

Authorized Uses

Electronic resources are available for use solely in support of the educational or personal research use of students, staff, faculty and other authorized users.

In using these resources, licenses generally allow:

  • Viewing, retrieving, displaying, and saving portions of the licensed material on an electronic storage media (e.g. diskettes, hard disks, flash drives)
  • Printing single copies of portions of the licensed material

Prohibited Uses

Engaging in the following actions may result in the suspension or cancellation of access to an electronic resource for the entire UNO community:

  • Systematically downloading materials (for example downloading an entire journal issue), large-scale downloading from databases to create other collections of data or the use of robots, spiders, crawlers, or any software designed to automatically browse the web or record web activity
  • Systematically making printed or electronic copies of multiple portions of the licensed material
  • Displaying or distributing any part of the licensed material on the Internet
  • Using any portion of the licensed material for any commercial purpose
  • Removing or altering copyright notices or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the licensed material

Reproductions of licensed material by the Criss Library for any of its users are made only to the extent allowed in a resource's license agreement or under the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law, section 108. Reproductions provided to authorized users are with the understanding that copies will only be used for educational purposes and not to be reproduced for further distribution.